Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, who is also CEO of mobile payments company Square, said Twitter would refocus this year on leveraging its advantages in the real-time experience of its platform.
In 2005, IIM Lucknow established a second campus at Noida leveraging its locational advantage of nearness to Delhi.
Given that quick shifts in national labor policy occur not in the open through notice and comment rulemaking but in the shadows of the NLRB's lonely office, it should come as no surprise that both parties go to the brink of annihilation to prevent the other from leveraging its temporary political advantage to drastically alter the interpretation of labor law.
"Microsoft has done it again and again," observed Barry Schuler, who runs most of the online services at AOL. "Microsoft sits back, waits for rivals to make mistakes; it improves its product and then it leverages its platform advantage into new markets".
The company is also looking to leverage its advantage in manufacturing scale and in making chips with a more advanced technique than what AMD uses.
This in turn will come down to two factors: How well it leverages its competitive advantages of scale and data to attract large-scale brand advertising, and how successfully it grows new monetization models like payments.
In a statement, Meituan senior vice president Wang Puzhong said, "With the surging demand for food deliveries in China, Meituan is leveraging its platform and scale advantages to apply autonomous delivery technologies in its operations.
LA is truly poised to be the clean tech capital of the United States and cleantech companies know that LA is committed to leveraging its geographic location and infrastructure advantages along with the nation's largest port complex and one of the world's busiest airports, to make this a reality.
"The company is in a very good position to leverage its advantages to the hilt," said Ashok Kumar, an analyst with U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray.
Like many tools, the DSM has been applied in a variety of areas outside its original domain, as researchers and practitioners have sought to leverage its advantages.
