article thumbnail

Role of US Business Consultants for Foreign Companies

Business Consulting Agency

Business consultants provide legal support, regulatory guidance, and assistance in areas such as business registration, visas, permits, intellectual property protection, contract negotiations, and tax compliance. They provide valuable insights into market dynamics, pricing strategies, product positioning, and brand differentiation.

Company 52
article thumbnail

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. However, this is often difficult to do since there may be no comparable companies selling similar types of products. A showcase example are royalties paid for patents and other intellectual property.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions

LSA Global

Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. For example, the Denison Culture Survey measures four validated and benchmarked culture traits in the areas of mission, consistency, involvement, and adaptability.

Culture 36
article thumbnail

4 Mistakes That Kill Crowdsourcing Efforts

Harvard Business

Likewise, Quirky tried to manufacture the products its community conceived rather than find expert low cost producers. Firms launching new products today use Alibaba, an effective platform, to find low cost manufacturers with competitive bids. Alibaba makes none of these new products but instead facilitates the match.

article thumbnail

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

Harvard Business

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Value is in the products and services themselves. Intellectual capital. Financial capital.

article thumbnail

Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

And second, they need to ensure that – even with respect to strategy and operations – board scrutiny doesn’t result in an over-emphasis on conforming to benchmarks and industry norms. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Letting your ETR slip to the benchmark could risk your customers’ trust.

article thumbnail

Google Strikes Back in Patent Wars; Decades Long Litigation; Return to the Beginning Fistfight

MishTalk

The jump partly reflects new products such as the Google Glass “smart” glasses and its development of driverless cars, said Mr Lo. However, the sheer quantity of patent holdings also helps deter attack and has led to an intellectual property arms race. Our hope is to avoid a war ,” said Allen Lo, Google’s chief patent lawyer.