Many firms choose their markets and strategies for the wrong reasons, relying on everything from senior managers' gut feelings to the behaviors of rivals.
Managers typically think that the competitive pressure their companies experience is solely the result of the behavior of their rivals.
The ingenuity in Mr. Spacey's performance is that he becomes a grotesque mirror of the behavior of his rivals.
A case in point: Earlier in the day, Mr. Gingrich assailed the behavior of his rivals and pledged to respond with "the best ideas" during a bus tour in Iowa starting shortly after Christmas.
Mr. McClain makes clear, however, his belief that Japan's 20th-century aggression was driven by the threat posed by Western imperialism in East Asia and complex feelings of inferiority and backwardness that drove Japan to hoist itself up to the first rank of world powers, copying, where the need arose, even the most repugnant behavior of its rivals.
Moreover, auto regressive moving average (ARMA), Monte Carlo simulation approach [13, 14] and Roulette wheel technique [15] are widely used in retail problems to forecast the electricity price variations, hourly wind speed and behavior of other rival retailers, respectively.
Meanwhile, 26 percent say they text or check their e-mail – behavior that rivals that of teenage drivers.
There are two broad approaches: "structural" remedies, which involve breaking up the offending company; and "conduct" remedies, which involve prohibiting certain kinds of corporate behavior, like threatening rivals or writing contracts that restrict competition.
Spoto chronicles Crawford's alcoholism and her occasional fits of rotten behavior toward rival stars like Norma Shearer, but he insists that she was a loyal friend and unfailingly generous to the crews that she worked with.
Led by Chief Executive Paul S. Otellini Paul S. Otellini, chipmaker Intel fired back against accusations of anticompetitive behavior from rival Advanced Micro Devices Tuesday.
Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: Led by Chief Executive Paul S. Otellini Paul S. Otellini, chipmaker Intel fired back against accusations of anticompetitive behavior from rival Advanced Micro Devices Tuesday.
