Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

The theory of disruption explains why incumbent businesses – with high fixed cost infrastructures and embedded beliefs about what the market wants – fail to adopt business models that lower the cost of their services and drive product accessibility to entirely new sets of users.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

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 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work.

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

” This feedback helped Oka, an industry outsider, convince President Kazuo Ushida, a 40-year veteran of Nikon’s technology businesses, that the company needed to revisit its dialogue with investors. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Covering tisagenlecleucel with zero patient cost sharing for these patients would impact insurance premiums by less than 40 cents per enrollee per month. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum. Problems may get worse.

Cost 8

Cost Insurance Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. And in these discussions, most executives acknowledge the tendency to send mixed signals and the impact on the productivity and commitment of external resources.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

These include the widespread adoption of health plans like Silver plans on state exchanges that require subscribers to share at least 30% of the costs up to a specified limit and the introduction of technology to allow consumers to make informed decisions such as Castlight Health’s price-transparency tools.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

It is now possible to shift a large part of the market research into the product development phase. You call this your minimum viable product (MVP). As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. But things have changed.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

A fascinating business dynamic will unfold as health care providers in the United States shift from a reimbursement system that has historically paid for procedures performed to one that rewards population health — providing the total care of a community at a fixed cost and improving its members overall health.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Cost Operations 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.

Creativity 127

Creativity Innovation Trends Information Technology 127

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Technology is clearly part of it, as is the trend toward intangible investment. But why are these companies doing so well?

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The discipline they brought to these often loosely-run businesses drove much of the post-war productivity boom. The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

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. Some new products under this umbrella, like the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, were breakthrough hits, but they probably cost a good deal to develop.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In addition, its broad distribution network aimed at same-day delivery in many markets (through Amazon Flex , its “Uber for delivery” service) may also make the immediate delivery of certain prescriptions along with one’s groceries or other products a reality. So where is the link to health care? Data analytics.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Is digital technology a democratizing force, allowing smaller, newer companies to compete against giant ones? Despite those trends, our research suggests that technology can in fact provide an advantage to small and new firms. Pivothead is a firm with 25 employees producing wearable technologies to help the blind and visually impaired.

Technology 10

Technology Agility Fixed Costs Software 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

But since books have low marginal cost (printing and distribution) relative to fixed costs (research, writing, and editing), Wiley can profitably sell its textbooks there at lower prices. But it's also important for what it says about digital content, especially when that content is embedded in physical products.

Price 16

Price Open-book Retail Content 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

But since books have low marginal cost (printing and distribution) relative to fixed costs (research, writing, and editing), Wiley can profitably sell its textbooks there at lower prices. But it's also important for what it says about digital content, especially when that content is embedded in physical products.

Price 9

Price Open-book Retail Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. The implications are threefold: The best product doesn’t always win.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11