Mark Messina is the CEO of Addverb USA, a company that solves complex fulfillment challenges through robotics and automation solutions. Vertical integration is a business strategy where the business ...

Vertical integration is one of those concepts taught about in business school, an essential step in the development of industrial capitalism, along with the assembly line and interlocking parts. Its ...

Discover how Apple Inc. and Carnegie Steel Co. leveraged backward integration to control supply chains and enhance efficiency ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Delp is NY-based, covering retail, fashion, and home products. When retailers start buying their suppliers, it's usually a ...

Discover how horizontal integration can grow your business through mergers, acquisitions, and expansions to increase market ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The benefits of buying space companies to pursue vertical integration are becoming less apparent in the current economic climate. Buying out suppliers can give a company more control ...

Since its modest beginnings in a California garage in 1976, Apple Inc. has aimed to “Think Different” not only about its products but about something equally important: its supply chain. While ...

Apart from passing the Karman line and reaching outer space, there are few boasts in the U.S. space sector prouder than “my company is vertically integrated.” Vertical integration—the practice of ...

Vilsa Curto ([email protected]), Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Anna D. Sinaiko, Harvard University. Meredith B. Rosenthal, Harvard University. Alongside recent increases in ownership, ...