Fixed Costs Leadership Operations Quality 
Leading Blog
JUNE 23, 2020
By taking the right actions to improve operations now, we could position ourselves to improve performance later, while the reverse would also hold true: short-term results would validate that we were on the right long-term path. Grow while keeping fixed costs constant. The quality of thought in a team or organization matters.
Strategy Driven
MARCH 31, 2020
That uncertainty and inability to be in command of business operations makes us anxious. This is a time to share the challenges regarding fixed costs, debt, obligations and the cost of doing business. Use this opportunity to talk to younger generations in the family about business operations and the trials ahead.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 6, 2014
If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million. billion to $8.6
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. 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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 5, 2017
Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.
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