Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

My driver said he’d been with Uber ever since he’d graduated from his master’s program in IT project management last year. So to cover his monthly fixed costs of student loan payments (on more than $100k in debt), rent, and health care he was driving for Uber. Economy Tech industry Technology'

Long-term 10

Long-term Fixed Costs Short-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

The radical democratization of business over the last decade created by open innovation, crowdsourcing, and co-creation is transforming how advertising organizations work. Typically, outdoor companies use professional athletes as field testers to help them not only test their products but also help innovate.

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Innovation Creativity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand. Are all share repurchases myopic?

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

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. This is standard practice, after all, in the paper printing industry.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

.” There, in the shadow of Google’s global headquarters, the audience laughed on cue, quickly grokking the embarrassing point: it’s 2016 and this $3 trillion industry that our lives depend upon still relies on faxes, clipboards, and isolated instances of legacy software locked away in hospital basements. Insight Center.

Health Care 9

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

It provides consumers with a viable, lower cost alternative to the manufacturer branded products. Tesco came to the party much later in the 1980s but ended up winning with its “good-better-best” private label lines, setting the industry standard for how to play the private label game. The answer is simple – selling more.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 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. And SunPower, the second largest U.S. Meanwhile, utilities are not standing idle.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 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. This removed the biggest bottleneck to innovation — us. Software development" and "hardware" are bad words.

Budgeting 9

Budgeting Software Entrepreneur Fixed Costs 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. His measure of IT better explains the rise in industry concentration than do measures of M&A or entrepreneurship.

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8