The Financial Services Council (FSC) has welcomed the Productivity Commission’s (PC’s) finding that vertical integration is “not a problem in and of itself” but has urged consideration be given to ...

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 ...

Explore what a vertical merger is, its benefits, potential risks, and real-world examples to understand its impact on ...

For decades, vertical integration meant ownership. According to Michael E. Porter's seminal work Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, companies sought to reduce costs, ...

COVID-19 brought challenges to supply chains that many thought could never happen. Just in time (JIT) supply chain models were crushed when boats stopped sailing, truckers stopped driving, and ...

Vertical integration allows health organizations to coordinate care seamlessly. When hospitals, primary care providers, specialists, and pharmacies operate within a unified network, information flows ...

Once upon a time, there were three big truck engine makers in the U.S.: Caterpillar, Cummins, and Detroit. A couple of truck makers, like Mack and Volvo, offered their own engines. You ordered a truck ...

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 ...

Angel Oak Mortgage REIT is a mortgage REIT that focuses on non-qualified mortgage loans, a niche corner of the home loan market. AOMR is part of the Angel Oak Ecosystem, a vertically integrated home ...

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

In recent years direct ownership of physician practices by hospitals and health systems (that is, vertical integration) has become a prominent feature of the US health care system. One unexplored ...