Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

And it could even be thought of as fitting; iTunes accomplished the exact same thing during its early-2000s attack on the bricks-and-mortar retail music industry. Apple set the stage to decimate Tower Records and Sam Goody before either had a clue their industry was about to revolt.

Christensen 16

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. 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. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Cipla, an India-based producer of low cost antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is one of the biggest success stories in the pharma industry. What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets.

Company 11

Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 11

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.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

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. In essence, the venture client, instead of equity, buys the technology of a startup when it is still a venture to do so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

This phenomenon has been documented in the consumer-packaged-goods , food , semiconductor-manufacturing , and other industries. 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. automobile industry.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

We didn't want to burden the organization with fixed costs. Almost everything had to be free, and the few things we paid for had to be scalable so that the unit costs would eventually approach zero. Software development" and "hardware" are bad words. This removed the biggest bottleneck to innovation — us.

Budgeting 9

Budgeting Software Entrepreneur Fixed Costs 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. It provides consumers with a viable, lower cost alternative to the manufacturer branded products. Hard discounters aim for twice the volume with the same fixed costs so they can make the same returns at half the gross margin.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

For example, hospital systems’ ability to receive premium prices for higher quality and more consistent care in a market is now being limited by greater consumer and employer price sensitivity, increased scrutiny on industry profits, and regulatory concerns about hospital mergers. by acquiring physician practices or outpatient facilities).

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. He finds that the rise in industry concentration – the share of revenue captured by the top firms in a sector – is largely explained by the adoption of IT. But why are these companies doing so well?

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

With 3D printing, however, industrial conglomerates are about to get a new lease on life. As the technology develops, GE could revamp this and other plants into general printer farms supplying all of its manufacturing divisions. This is standard practice, after all, in the paper printing industry.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

Indeed, he worried that rising concentration was not so much a bug of industrial development but a key feature of it, as technological development increased the scale of both economies and the businesses within them. “Moreover, industries with higher increases in concentration also exhibit higher output growth.”

Creativity 123

Creativity Innovation Trends Information Technology 123

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

Harley helped V&S launch Fan Machine by enlisting its fans to develop a new campaign. In every part of the industry, the open innovation model is changing the economics of advertising by switching significant fixed costs to variable costs and sourcing creative from more relevant and, many times, lower cost sources.

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Innovation Creativity 9