Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

This problem is likely to get worse as personalized medicine becomes more common, more patients get to choose between competing private health plans, and employers shrink the coverage they offer employees in order to reduce their labor costs. Low-income and disabled Medicaid recipients often choose from competing, private, managed-care plans.

Cost 8

Cost Insurance Incentives Policies 8

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

From my experience heading Scotland’s National Health Service from 2010 until last August (and before as its director of health care policy and strategy), I know that such constraints can unleash innovations that will lead to better care — and better health — for communities. Working under a fixed-cost ceiling was, of course, difficult.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. In my management 3.0 model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Meanwhile, declines in revenue and escalating fixed costs for things like public employee pensions and health care are crippling our cities budgets. In public safety, better analysis of crime data can lead to better deployment of the public safety workforce, lowering crime and reducing cost.

Short-term 12

Short-term Budgeting Health Care Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. Re-visit big, inflexible projects — The 80/20 rule often applies to corporate innovation portfolios; a few projects consume the lion's share of cash. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. It could be because “software development typically requires large upfront fixed costs,” meaning that firms that are already pretty large are the ones who can afford to invest in it. But why are these companies doing so well?

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is delivered to patients. Data analytics. Health care is similar.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

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. As the technology develops, GE could revamp this and other plants into general printer farms supplying all of its manufacturing divisions. Conglomerates, after all, are just a management tool.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

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. Harley helped V&S launch Fan Machine by enlisting its fans to develop a new campaign.

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Innovation Creativity 9