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Standard advisory glossary

Textbook finance, M&A, governance, strategy, and organisation terms. Not UNITE and not Layer 4. 147 terms. Textbook meanings only.

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strategy · intermediate

Value Chain

The full sequence of activities a company performs to design, produce, market, deliver, and support its product or service, used as a framework for analysing where within that sequence a company creates the most value and where it holds a genuine competitive advantage relative to rivals.

finance · intro

Venture Capital

Also called: VC

Investment capital provided to early-stage, high-growth-potential companies, typically in exchange for equity, in return for the high risk of investing before a business model is fully proven. Venture capital investors generally expect that most individual investments will fail, with returns concentrated in a small number of highly successful companies.

strategy · intermediate

Vertical Integration

A strategy in which a company expands its operations to control multiple stages of its supply chain or production process, either backward toward suppliers or forward toward distribution and customers, rather than relying on external companies for those stages. It can improve control and margin capture, but also increases the operational complexity a company must manage directly.