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JANUARY 2, 2011

It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

ACSOI essentially measures Groupon's profits before subtracting its subscriber-acquisition costs and stock option-based compensation. In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 Secondly, expecting a business to be profitable quickly forces it to keep its fixed costs low.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. And the fixed cost from “touchpoint-to-pilot” are immense.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

That may be true, but then the firms that do carry out the R&D are also dominant in their developed domestic markets, where their margins can absorb the fixed costs of R&D and there's nothing to stop them from competing on a cost basis in Africa, particularly given the low production costs of most drugs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Working under a fixed-cost ceiling was, of course, difficult. Preventive, coordinated, and team-based care has proven a successful strategy for managing these high-cost, high-utilization patients. (A The Parliament would vote on an expenditure limit and the NHS had to live within that limit.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

During an economic crisis, the exaggerated decline in orders can be especially damaging to upstream suppliers that have high fixed costs tied to production assets. This is exactly what happened during 2010 and 2011 as the global economy was bouncing back.) Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors.

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