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...million. (Wang still expects Acer to match or slightly exceed its 2008 operating profits in 2009.) Bryan Ma, a computer-industry analyst at IDC in Singapore, says Acer risks tarnishing its brand in the long run. But during the recession, Ma says, Acer's product mix will help it outperform. "They're in the right place at the right time," he says...
...head of external management at HMC. But he adds that “it’s not like we’re throwing out the old model and bringing in a new one.”For his part, Blyth says he is confident that his teams will outperform their market indices this fiscal year. According to Mendillo, the portfolio deleveraging process initiated prior to her arrival had been “accelerated” during the course of the financial crisis, leaving HMC with a positive cash situation today—in contrast to the company?...
...most of the years since the company was started in the late 1970s, Microsoft has grown rapidly. That is not going to happen anymore. It is too large and that makes it a captive of the economy. Microsoft is not going to outperform the trends in global technology spending by a great deal, and it will rarely do much worse. What will happen is that Microsoft will remain the dominant force in business, server, and PC software for years. The company's products are too ubiquitous and too well-designed to be easily replaced. Microsoft will have competition, but that...
Wilcox thinks the mechanism at work here is what's known as "vicarious goal fulfillment." People who excel at self-control are very good at remaining mindful of an objective and keeping it in focus. When that goal is, say, finishing a term paper, they outperform other people at ignoring distracting options like going to a movie. When that goal is eating well, they're better at resisting distractions like ice cream and pizza. But when a virtuous choice is actually made available, the goal may feel fulfilled even when it hasn't been. Once they have that illusion that...
...This recession was online advertising's big test. The internet, which is the most efficient medium, was supposed to outperform all of the others when budgets shrank. The oldest media businesses were supposed to perform worse with each downturn in the economy. The common assumption was that, over time, online advertising would eventually get 20% of all marketing dollars spent...