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Cool Alone Won't Save Your Company

Harvard Business Review

A succession of CEOs prior to Rick Wagoner (who fought heroically to overcome the dreadful hand he was dealt) allowed all manner of legacy costs to build up (retiree health, Jobs Bank, etc.) and those largely fixed costs were more painful and debilitating if GM shrank in the U.S. — as it did — than if it grew.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. The media’s bias toward big events stems from three features of its economics: Fixed costs. The cost of covering a golf tournament doesn’t depend on whether Tiger Woods plays. Fixed costs have always been central to the economics of media.

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