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 ...

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, ...

As developers hunt for ways to stabilize revenue and capture more margin, vertically integrated approaches (where the company owns both the generation assets and the retail customer relationship) are ...