Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Hard discounters aim for twice the volume with the same fixed costs so they can make the same returns at half the gross margin. In its latest annual report, the Times places Tesco 23 rd in its ranking of top 100 graduate employers in the UK, down from 15 th last year; Aldi moved up from 6 th to 4 th place.

Retail 12

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

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. As the bullwhip roars and media reports increase the fear in the marketplace, companies can expect consumers to become more frugal. Strategies to Implement Now.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Working under a fixed-cost ceiling was, of course, difficult. We had little or no revenue-raising ability, and we had to meet a clear, challenging, and publicly reported set of quality objectives. The Parliament would vote on an expenditure limit and the NHS had to live within that limit.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

And in a particularly interesting study, Freelancers Union , a US-based organization, reported that a quarter of the US workforce were project-based independents working for more than one organization. More recently, Deloitte estimated that 30 to 40 percent of corporate FTEs are supplied by external resources.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee reported a link between IT adoption and industry concentration in HBR in 2008 ; since then, multiple analyses have linked increased use of digital technology to higher profitability at both the industry and company level. Bessen’s findings are consistent with a lot of other data.

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Wired reported late last year, "The top 10 Web sites accounted for 31% of US page views in 2001, 40% in 2006, and 75% in 2010." As each of these companies expands its fixed-cost infrastructure, profits grow geometrically because the additional variable cost of adding each new user is near zero.

CPA 15

CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

Meanwhile, V&S tracked the brief, moderated the entries, collected fan data, and reported it back to Harley. 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 10

Advertising Brand Innovation Creativity 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Placing ads next to content helps websites recover the sizeable fixed costs of creating content. But ad blockers cut off this revenue stream and make it difficult to offset even the running cost of storing and delivering content to visitors. According to one report , U.S.

Advertising 8

Advertising Content Fixed Costs Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

The media’s bias toward big events stems from three features of its economics: Fixed costs. The cost of covering a golf tournament doesn’t depend on whether Tiger Woods plays. Fixed costs have always been central to the economics of media. But if he does, ratings — and revenue — double.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Recent leaked reports suggest trouble for the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner, an $85 billion deal first announced over a year ago. Later stories reported it was AT&T that had offered to sell CNN. Britta Knappmann/EyeEm/Getty Images. A rational content owner would look for new markets, not foreclose them.

Stephenson 9

Stephenson Guidelines Supply Chain Analysis 9