Vertical or horizontal integration is at the heart of a company’s operations strategy. We’ll talk more about why there is new momentum around vertical integration, but first we ask which model ...

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 ...

Ruzzier, Christian Alejandro. "Asset Specificity and Vertical Integration: Williamson's Hypothesis Reconsidered." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-119, April 2009.

Before COVID-19 turned the aerospace and defense (A&D) manufacturing and aftermarket worlds on their heads, a key issue clouding suppliers’ outlooks was how much encroachment to expect from Airbus, ...

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, ...