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Harvard Business Review
MAY 28, 2018
Most companies see investor relations as a one-way street. Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images. What he heard was uncomfortable.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 21, 2011
Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. Within the first year of our effort net sales increased 27 percent while fixed costs were reduced by 40 percent.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
But in reality most companies, particularly those that manage to last for any reasonable period of time, do day-to-day innovation extremely well. Where companies struggle is with the breakthroughs that reinvent existing categories or create entirely new ones. It''s not like large companies never manage to do it.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 16, 2017
Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. And the fixed cost from “touchpoint-to-pilot” are immense.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 6, 2016
For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 21, 2015
The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay.
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