Microsoft's broad product portfolio helped lift its growth, including its server and tools division, which rose 11 percent to $5.04 billion.
It would also help simplify GE Capital's portfolio, helping to woo back G.E.'s stock investors who have been turned off by the finance unit's complexity.
The British advertising and media company Cordiant Communications said recent additions to its portfolio helped lift profit more than 60percentt in the first half.
Swatch Group's chairwoman, Nayla Hayek, said the addition of a jewelry-watch brand "brilliantly complements the prestige segment" of Swatch's portfolio, helping it compete against luxury watch makers.
She attended business conferences, learned to analyze a stock portfolio, helped research a PowerPoint presentation — nothing of any key importance to the company, but she got a taste of the field.
Significant losses that Lehman Brothers suffered from its part of the acquisition of Archstone-Smith, a national apartment portfolio, helped to bring down the investment bank, one of the most venerable firms on Wall Street.
Diversified media portfolio helps insulate it from worst of advertising drought.
On that note, the company claims 100 games in its portfolio, helped by the acquisition of portal Gimme5Games in September 2009, which hosts titles such as the Phantom Mansion series, and says it's currently developing 2 new titles per week.
LG's multiple model approach and its mid- and low-end portfolio helped it rake in $475 million in profit last year — compare that to struggling fellow Android maker HTC — as it shipped 59.1 million smartphones.
He currently works across a broad portfolio, helping founders build and scale their companies.
A diverse portfolio helps to show the range of the company and their ability to bring out the likes of the couple, not just of themselves.
