Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

.” There, in the shadow of Google’s global headquarters, the audience laughed on cue, quickly grokking the embarrassing point: it’s 2016 and this $3 trillion industry that our lives depend upon still relies on faxes, clipboards, and isolated instances of legacy software locked away in hospital basements.

Health Care 8

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Managers typically use breakeven analysis to set a price to understand the economic impact of various price- and sales-volume scenario. It’s a simple calculation to determine how many units must be sold at a given price to cover one’s fixed costs. Assume she must incur a fixed cost of $25,500 to produce and sell a kite.

Analysis 15

Analysis Fixed Costs Price Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Managers typically use breakeven analysis to set a price to understand the economic impact of various price- and sales-volume scenario. It’s a simple calculation to determine how many units must be sold at a given price to cover one’s fixed costs. Assume she must incur a fixed cost of $25,500 to produce and sell a kite.

Analysis 8

Analysis Fixed Costs Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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. For instance, research has shown that IT is more effective when paired with good management.

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

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. That gave it a steadier cash flow to cover the costs of its large fixed cost investments, but did not eliminate the unused capacity of plants dedicated to one kind of product.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Putting data “in the cloud” essentially means paying someone else to manage it, and then connecting to their servers via the internet to access your data when you need it. They painstakingly record the hardware and software used by millions of firms per year back to 1981. since the 1980s.

Technology 9

Technology Agility Fixed Costs Software 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

The other side of the debate is championed by companies who create ad blocking software, as well as online privacy activists. The software prevents websites from generating ad revenue, which is often their main source of income. Placing ads next to content helps websites recover the sizeable fixed costs of creating content.

Advertising 8

Advertising Content Fixed Costs Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Congestion, rather than raw usage, is the key driver of this phenomenon; given that the Internet Service Provider network is largely a fixed-cost asset. Like any fixed-cost asset, such as the Interstate highway system in the U.S., Do we need a new set of incentives that can help manage the internet's growth?

Fixed Costs 15

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Congestion, rather than raw usage, is the key driver of this phenomenon; given that the Internet Service Provider network is largely a fixed-cost asset. Like any fixed-cost asset, such as the Interstate highway system in the U.S., Do we need a new set of incentives that can help manage the internet's growth?

Fixed Costs 8

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Because more people used PCs, and wrote software for them, they became the default choice for nearly everyone. The media’s bias toward big events stems from three features of its economics: Fixed costs. The cost of covering a golf tournament doesn’t depend on whether Tiger Woods plays.

Media 10

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 10