In the case of Wal-Mart, the company may be "better" than its competitors at exploiting market trends, but that does not absolve it from responsibility for the consequences of the trends that it helps to promote.
Although its breakneck sales growth has slowed slightly of late, it owes its success to exploiting two trends.
Tobacco companies are exploiting those trends with well-financed "alluring marketing campaigns" aimed at women, so precise that the color red is often used because "it connotes excitement, passion and strength, wealth and power" and aids in product recall, the authors of the marketing chapter reported.
He is successfully exploiting several trends in modern life - the interest in celebrities, the anti-politics mood, and the popularity of social media.
In interviews, Chainsmokers unabashedly cop to treating their music like a product, testing and exploiting market trends to optimize their brand.
The best-performing online investors, Marketocracy's M100, are exploiting this trend by piling into one company they believe could benefit from it: Safeway.
They exploited cultural trends and fads, and buried cultural trends and fads with the shoddy facts of themselves.
As the planet gets hotter, hungrier and more crowded, experts predict that loosely-aligned terror cells will exploit demographic trends like rising youth unemployment, dissatisfaction with governing regimes, and the mismanagement of natural resources.
As the planet gets hotter, hungrier, and more crowded, experts predict that loosely aligned terror cells will exploit demographic trends like rising youth unemployment, dissatisfaction with governing regimes, and the mismanagement of natural resources.
Simons has won prestigious prizes for his work at the frontiers of mathematics, pursuing a successful career in academia before founding Renaissance in 1982, His numerical affinity -- he's a former code breaker -- has served Renaissance well: It was among the first "quant" funds, using complex mathematical modeling to identify and exploit market trends.
