Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With 3D printing, however, industrial conglomerates are about to get a new lease on life. Conglomerates, at least in the United States, have a checkered history.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 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

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

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. And SunPower, the second largest U.S. Meanwhile, utilities are not standing idle.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. 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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 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

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

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. Affiliation models.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 8

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

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

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