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An HBR Refresher on Breakeven Quantity

Harvard Business Review

I talked with Jill Avery, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and co-author of HBR’s Go To Market Tools , to better understand how to use this important calculation. To figure total costs you first multiply the unit quantity sold by the variable costs per unit, then you add the fixed costs.