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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. He developed three principles of short- and long -term performance that forced them to consider the long- and short-term implication in every decision they made: 1. Grow while keeping fixed costs constant.

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

An effective plan is chalking down the purpose and goals of your business. Describing the offerings of your services, the product life cycles, intellectual properties as well as the research and development procedures of your business. Fixed Costs / (Average Price – Variable Costs) = Break-Even Point –. Conclusion.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals. And the fixed cost from “touchpoint-to-pilot” are immense. The venture client approach also gives them real-world feedback on their products and services.

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Cipla, an India-based producer of low cost antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is one of the biggest success stories in the pharma industry. What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets.

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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options. So not only were the current fees too weak to support his fixed costs, but future clients were turned off by his apparently excessive tastes.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. The goal is to attract the British middle classes, and it appears to be working. Hard discounters aim for twice the volume with the same fixed costs so they can make the same returns at half the gross margin. billion to $8.6

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