Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

We simply have no precedent for how to plan for what may come next, or for managing the pace of the upheaval. This is a time to share the challenges regarding fixed costs, debt, obligations and the cost of doing business. Family businesses and wealth are under threat like never before. About the Author. Jaffe, Ph.D.,

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Crisis Fixed Costs Open-book Social Capital 66

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

Cost-plus pricing is a lot like the romance novel genre, in that it’s widely ridiculed yet tremendously popular. Almost every manager I know will claim they hate pricing based only on costs. The markup is stipulated by the buyer, as is often the case with government contracts, or it can be chosen by the manager. (I

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Price Cost Tactics Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost house; the cars; the latest consumer goods. The American Dream is transforming to prioritize experiences over material goods and quality of life over quantity of stuff.

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Disaggregation Insurance Retail Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. And the fixed cost from “touchpoint-to-pilot” are immense. In essence, the venture client, instead of equity, buys the technology of a startup when it is still a venture to do so.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Private label (retail-branded merchandise) has been growing for years – since Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer invented it over 100 years ago – increasing in quality and forcing down brand premiums. It provides consumers with a viable, lower cost alternative to the manufacturer branded products. Everyone shops at Aldi.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Meanwhile, declines in revenue and escalating fixed costs for things like public employee pensions and health care are crippling our cities budgets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. The media’s bias toward big events stems from three features of its economics: Fixed costs. Fixed costs have always been central to the economics of media.

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