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RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. 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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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

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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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Cipla, an India-based producer of low cost antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is one of the biggest success stories in the pharma industry. What's the reason for Cipla's success and should it worry the likes of Merck and Hoffman La Roche? It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. Finally, corporate VCs are unable to pitch the promise of a self-fulfilling prophecy the way successful private VCs can.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

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. How did this happen?

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

These preparatory steps are of particular importance for carve-outs that are not full-fledged business units with profit & loss responsibility, such as R&D centers or production units whose only customer is their parent. Successful spin-offs tend to have a management team that comprises both insiders and outsiders.

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Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality

Harvard Business Review

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. Working under a fixed-cost ceiling was, of course, difficult. One success has been a marked reduction in the use of emergency beds for patients over 75. Today it accounts for nearly twice that — close to 18%.