Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. The higher the premium, the more consumers are likely to associate quality with the offering.

Quality 13

Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. In parallel, it reduced its fixed costs by restructuring its industrial footprint and overhead structure; increasing sales, marketing, and R&D expenditures in targeted areas; and dramatically reducing working capital.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

It's an example of an organization seeking to meet this challenge of scale by providing top-tier, in-kind expertise and working capital to promising social enterprises. Since it started its work in December 2010, SBT has invested in five social enterprises, which have since collectively increased their revenues by 77%.

Finance 8

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Due to huge capital requirements, these investments could exert considerable pressure on the working capital of the carrier company. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. to $0.005 per minute, perhaps the lowest rates in the world.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10