Among other things, it holds a stake in a Nigerian firm that sells powdered milk, and it plans to build up five to ten substantial firms over the next decade.At the moment, Tana is focused on fast-moving consumer goods and agriculture, and to a lesser extent on building materials, health and education.
Due to longer job tenure, older workers may embody substantial firm-specific human capital, which is forgone when they are displaced (Poletaev and Robinson 2008).
Is it a quasi-governmental regulator, one with authority over every substantial brokerage firm and most of the major companies in America?
How about General Electric's huge financial affiliate, or the large affiliates of other substantial commercial firms?
The government could help build competition by awarding the other firms substantial audit work, providing those firms with scale, critical mass and credibility.
But ever the realist, he saw that the shore — a firm, real, substantial shore — was a place it continually "returned" to to rejuvenate itself.
He was convicted for tipping Raj Rajaratnam about corporate developments at Goldman, a case that caused the firm substantial embarrassment.
Rice pudding, often a lackluster bowl of white slop, here was firm, substantial and infused with accents of rose water and orange-flower water.
Among potential activities, pricing is unique: pricing has a direct and substantial effect on firm performance.
