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JANUARY 2, 2011

(It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. If you greatly reduce the production volume, the cars that do come out have to absorb more of the fixed costs, and that eventually sends the product into a profitability death spiral. That is what GM is trying to do.

Restructuring

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations

Why HR Really Does Add Value

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

In many cases, this question is not asked politely. Within the first year of our effort net sales increased 27 percent while fixed costs were reduced by 40 percent. Not all fixed cost reductions were people. Throughout my career, I have consistently faced the question, "How does HR add value in a business?"

Offshoring

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction

Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In larger facilities, there is often an astonishing proliferation of special care units, ICUs, and quasi-ICUs that are expensive to staff and have high fixed cost profiles. The growth of these costs rivals those of specialty pharmaceuticals and the maintenance and updating of electronic health record systems.

Cost

Cost System Management Franchising

The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

remains home to a considerable number of “climate skeptics,” who clearly impact the politics around the issue, as they are unlikely to support costly actions such as carbon taxes intended to mitigate the challenge of climate change. In other words, climate skeptics don’t just stymie progress on climate policy.

Entrepreneur

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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Witness the grassroots political movements that are increasingly shaking up "stable" political regimes around the world. Power laws with spiky heads and very long tails progressively crowd out the familiar bell curves that made life seem predictable.

Drucker

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization

Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

So not only were the current fees too weak to support his fixed costs, but future clients were turned off by his apparently excessive tastes. To address those cost overruns, Colin subleased some space, cancelled a redundant and very expensive trading service, and let one person go.

Strategy

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price

What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

Imagine eliminating all of the redundancies in fixed costs. What would this entity do, in a world with so many diverse charities with so many diverse political and religious views? Consolidating databases and information and talent. Imagine the strength of the acumen and the voice. Imagine the sense of pride it would engender.

Budgeting

Budgeting NGO Diversity Fixed Costs

Is Rooftop Solar Finally Good Enough to Disrupt the Grid?

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay.

Energy

Energy Transportation Software Price

America's Cities Need to Get Smarter

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Meanwhile, declines in revenue and escalating fixed costs for things like public employee pensions and health care are crippling our cities budgets. Our large metro areas now house two thirds of America's total population. They have become the dominant forces in our economy and society.

Short-term

Short-term Budgeting Health Care Long-term

How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

We had two key findings: The political rhetoric about demand-side versus supply-side as a better option is ill-founded; both have roughly the same effect on total spending. Since provider margins are razor thin and fixed costs are very high, small changes in incentives or market share should have a significant impact.

Health Care

Health Care Insurance Price Cost

The Customers Who Are Happy to Pay More for Less

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2015

This makes financial sense in industries with high fixed costs and low variable costs: larger sizes enable the company to charge higher prices that, even if they are just slightly larger, absorb a higher portion of fixed costs, while reducing packaging cost per volume and attracting value-minded consumers.

Fixed Costs

Fixed Costs Price Constraint Cost

If Innovation Is Happening, Where Is The Creative Destruction?

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

If we worry that large companies can influence politics, how do we improve democratic institutions?” To understand this, they believe we need to better understand how changes in technology and organization will affect both fixed costs and marginal costs of production, or whether they will facilitate decentralization.

Creativity

Creativity Innovation Trends Information Technology

The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Critics across the political spectrum have said that fake news and cyberattacks played a big role in determining the course of events. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. The media’s bias toward big events stems from three features of its economics: Fixed costs.

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

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Why HR Really Does Add Value

Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential

Is Rooftop Solar Finally Good Enough to Disrupt the Grid?

America's Cities Need to Get Smarter

How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

The Customers Who Are Happy to Pay More for Less

If Innovation Is Happening, Where Is The Creative Destruction?

The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

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