Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

But if managers make it a priority to show outward respect for employees on a regular basis, it will lead to a strong and enduring workplace culture as well as positive experiences and memories that they will never forget. can all contribute to the positive culture of the company and can be good morale builders as well.

Long-term 10

Long-term Fixed Costs Commitment Agility 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

Jobs-to-be-done suggests that in order to predict how to develop, compare, and position our products, we should be driven by a fundamental understanding of what that product is hired to do. When I compared Tower to other options to fulfill that job, it was pretty well positioned. Enter iTunes.

Christensen 16

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. 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.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost house; the cars; the latest consumer goods. If you had a full-time job, you won. Entrepreneurial workers also win. The gig economy rewards hustle.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Insurance Retail Fixed Costs 8

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 9

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Research by Harvard Business School senior lecturer Shikhar Ghosh, in fact, has found that fully 75% of venture capital-backed startups — presumably the crème de la crème of the startup world — failed to return the capital invested in them to their investors (let alone generate positive returns).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The advantages that hospital systems can derive from scale fall into four groups: Classic economies of scale focus on lowering the cost per unit of care delivered (e.g., A hospital system that can strengthen its structural position within a market is apt to have a more favorable negotiating position with its partners.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” In this networked world, the traditional consumer becomes an active producer who adds knowledge and value to the system in a positive feedback loop. On any given day in America, 40% of hospital beds lie empty, their enormous fixed costs weighing heavily on the system. Or take medical appointments.

Health Care 9

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus. A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Since provider margins are razor thin and fixed costs are very high, small changes in incentives or market share should have a significant impact. Innovation in insurance products, such as value-based-insurance designs that reduce cost sharing for highly effective clinical services, can help address these concerns.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

This arrangement is often complicated by inconsistent decision criteria: purchasing wants the lowest price and a fixed cost, whereas the business or operation wants the best resource, a good cultural fit, and enough flexibility in the contract to allow for changes in scope or strategy.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Working under a fixed-cost ceiling was, of course, difficult. Finally, we should involve patients in shared decision making because we know it gives them the care they want and need, improves outcomes, and can reduce costs. The Parliament would vote on an expenditure limit and the NHS had to live within that limit.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

This is a psychologically superior position because it allows for greater innovation, resilience and adaptability. This approach (see figure -2) represents a new psychological positioning for the entrepreneur. So what is the benefit to taking this position of uncertainty? 4) Costs – what is your cost per sale/customer?

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

Management has made promises to senior executives about what a project will achieve, and fixed costs have built up because they looked prudent in comparison to planned revenues. Add services — One of Procter & Gamble's most vaunted consumer brands is Mr. Clean. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In the vast majority of cases, over many decades, this structure has been positive and transformative to the buyer. During periods of strong asset growth, the common association of "leverage" becomes too one-sidedly positive (although the fallout from the recent recession may have moved popular bias too far in the other direction).

Financial Leverage 14

Financial Leverage Film Finance Class 14

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. And, as with IT, each of those can require considerable upfront investment, meaning bigger players are better positioned to take advantage.

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

.” The Matthew Effect Indeed, far from technology being found to disrupt incumbent operators, the data suggests that investments in digital technology are largely ensuring that dominant incumbents can entrench their strong market position and fight off any upstarts. They also ponder whether it’s a trend that is likely to continue.

Creativity 127

Creativity Innovation Trends Information Technology 127

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

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. The former conglomerates will be ideally positioned to create those platforms because they will have already developed them for their internal production.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Given its current business lines, Amazon seems well positioned to eventually serve as a single point of integration for such sources of data. The absence of fixed costs for customers attracted small and innovative web developers.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The success of an activist strategy is contingent upon placing a management team in an extremely reactive, frenzied and compromising position. However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact.

How To 8

How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Placing ads next to content helps websites recover the sizeable fixed costs of creating content. But ad blockers cut off this revenue stream and make it difficult to offset even the running cost of storing and delivering content to visitors.

Advertising 8

Advertising Content Fixed Costs Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

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. Fixed costs have always been central to the economics of media. But if he does, ratings — and revenue — double.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“Chicago School economics,” Rosch writes, “posits that competitors (including dominant firms) are likely to engage in rational and efficiency-enhancing conduct rather than conduct whose purpose and effect is simply to eliminate rivals, and, if they do not, markets are likely to correct themselves.”

Stephenson 9

Stephenson Guidelines Supply Chain Analysis 9