Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options.

Strategy 9

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” I assumed you had some further cost reduction up your sleeve.” What he heard was uncomfortable.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

For instance, larger scale has enabled many hospital systems to lower their per-patient operating costs significantly. However, reform and other market changes are altering the scale equation for hospital systems, so some of the traditional advantages that larger scale has traditionally brought them may no longer apply.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. 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. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

A fascinating business dynamic will unfold as health care providers in the United States shift from a reimbursement system that has historically paid for procedures performed to one that rewards population health — providing the total care of a community at a fixed cost and improving its members overall health.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Cost Operations 8

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. Management has made promises to senior executives about what a project will achieve, and fixed costs have built up because they looked prudent in comparison to planned revenues.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products. The big question, however, is whether any of these midsized conglomerates would be able to develop a 3D printer farm on its own.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

” The Matthew Effect Indeed, far from technology being found to disrupt incumbent operators, the data suggests that investments in digital technology are largely ensuring that dominant incumbents can entrench their strong market position and fight off any upstarts.

Creativity 127

Creativity Innovation Trends Information Technology 127

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. .” So where is the link to health care?

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. 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.

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Two developments bear noting. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11