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When Cost-Plus Pricing Is a Good Idea

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

A second important deficiency arises from the fallacy that a cost-plus price is guaranteed to cover costs. Cost-plus prices provide no guarantee of covering costs or earning a profit. The Strategic and Tactical Benefits of Cost-Plus Pricing. This notion can make managers falsely complacent.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Successful companies are notoriously prone to pursuing tactical fixes rather than confronting strategic problems. They exhort their people to try harder, introduce overhead cost reduction programs, and reorganize – anything rather than admit that their strategy needs an overhaul. How did this happen?

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