Horizontal Integration is strategy where a company acquires or merges with competitors in the same industry to increase market share and reduce competition. Vertical Integration involves acquiring ...

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 ...

Leaders of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) across administrations have promoted the policy goal of driving all of Medicare and the majority of Medicaid patients into risk-based ...

Business phrases like "due diligence" and "leverage" are common and well-known, but some newer ones, like forward integration, can be unfamiliar. The forward integration definition shared on ...

There is a creeping vertical integration in North American truck manufacturing. The model is changing from assembly of a wide diversity of components to a more structured and integrated whole, where ...

Vertical integration is the merging together of two businesses that are at different stages of production—for example, a food manufacturer and a chain of supermarkets. Merging in this way with ...

As 2015 comes to an end rapidly, the key question becomes what the next year will bring. Last year around this time, in my blog “The Next Big Shift In Verification”, I talked about software-driven ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. David Kindness is a Certified Public ...

The following is a brief article I wrote and is reprinted with permission. It originally appeared in The Neuropsychotherapist, Issue 2, July/Sept 2013, pp. 120-121. An integrative attitude toward ...