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An Insight into Special Services: Transfer Pricing

Tom Spencer

Firms do this mainly by searching for companies with similar profiles, and benchmarking prices against those used in the broader market. A showcase example are royalties paid for patents and other intellectual property. Multinational corporations like to take advantage of any ambiguity. This is the strategy followed by Apple.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Note that people often get hung up on definitions of “platform” these days. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes.