Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. As the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost System Management Franchising 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

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. After managing a sleeve of a successful hedge fund in London for five years, and building ample savings, Colin was ready for his own shop. Let’s examine two cases, one a former colleague and the other a close friend.

Strategy 8

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Congestion, rather than raw usage, is the key driver of this phenomenon; given that the Internet Service Provider network is largely a fixed-cost asset. Like any fixed-cost asset, such as the Interstate highway system in the U.S., Do we need a new set of incentives that can help manage the internet's growth?

Fixed Costs 15

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Congestion, rather than raw usage, is the key driver of this phenomenon; given that the Internet Service Provider network is largely a fixed-cost asset. Like any fixed-cost asset, such as the Interstate highway system in the U.S., Do we need a new set of incentives that can help manage the internet's growth?

Fixed Costs 8

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. 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.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9