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 8

Long-term Fixed Costs Short-term Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

Drucker 8

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 8

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

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. Here are the three principles that guided our efforts: People make the world go round.and technology makes it go faster.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Software Entrepreneur Fixed Costs 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 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. Affiliation models.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. In my management 3.0 In this article, my description of management 3.0 In the management 3.0 As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. So what does a Management 3.0

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. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Bessen compared measures of industry concentration from the U.S.

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 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. The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. In the U.S.,

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Is digital technology a democratizing force, allowing smaller, newer companies to compete against giant ones? has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. Pivothead is a firm with 25 employees producing wearable technologies to help the blind and visually impaired.

Technology 8

Technology Agility Fixed Costs Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

In my experience from working at an advertising technology company, the reasons are clear: they are easy to install and immediately effective, they make the web look cleaner and load faster, and they prevent advertisers from tracking user activity online. With 200 million downloads and counting, ad blockers are quickly growing in popularity.

Advertising 8

Advertising Content Fixed Costs Software 8