Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. 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.

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Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

But in reality most companies, particularly those that manage to last for any reasonable period of time, do day-to-day innovation extremely well. It''s not like large companies never manage to do it. An "enabling trend" is some technological or societal shift that makes it feasible to address the latent job.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Costs Trends Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 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. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

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Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

However many big projects become inflexible, travelling on rails to a fixed destination. 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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

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. The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. Conglomerates, at least in the United States, have a checkered history. GE might be first to capitalize on this.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

My driver said he’d been with Uber ever since he’d graduated from his master’s program in IT project management last year. So to cover his monthly fixed costs of student loan payments (on more than $100k in debt), rent, and health care he was driving for Uber. Economy Tech industry Technology'

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Long-term Fixed Costs Short-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. After managing a sleeve of a successful hedge fund in London for five years, and building ample savings, Colin was ready for his own shop. Let’s examine two cases, one a former colleague and the other a close friend.

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Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 9

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. And SunPower, the second largest U.S. Meanwhile, utilities are not standing idle.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images.

Company 9

Company ROIC CFO ROE 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Amazon Go store allows a customer to simply swipe their phone over a sensor upon entry and then relies on an array of sensor technologies to distinguish between the consumer actions of picking up a product, placing it in a cart, or returning it to a shelf. So where is the link to health care? Data analytics. Health care is similar.

Health Care 11

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 11

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. Many compensation plans reward managers for higher earnings and higher stock prices, as opposed to rewarding them for adding long-term value to the firm.

EPS 9

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Companies are investing millions of dollars in business intelligence technology. In spite of all the storms, the changing wind conditions, turbulence, and all the volatility and uncertainty they encounter along the way, they manage to land at their intended destination. By managing six critical variables effectively.

Business Intelligence 8

Business Intelligence Information Technology Uncertainty Fixed Costs 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. Low-income and disabled Medicaid recipients often choose from competing, private, managed-care plans.

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. Too often, purchasing departments manage the selection while operating managers—not involved in selection by fiat—are expected to make the relationship work.

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Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

We didn't want to burden the organization with fixed costs. Almost everything had to be free, and the few things we paid for had to be scalable so that the unit costs would eventually approach zero. Here are the three principles that guided our efforts: People make the world go round.and technology makes it go faster.

Budgeting 9

Budgeting Software Entrepreneur Fixed Costs 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Many hospitals system executives underestimate the cost of both pursuing an acquisition and managing the post-merger integration.). 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., Affiliation models.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 8

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

On any given day in America, 40% of hospital beds lie empty, their enormous fixed costs weighing heavily on the system. of all slots were used, suggesting there’s a systemic problem in how our industry manages this critical area of patient access. Or take medical appointments.

Health Care 9

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 9

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

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 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

AUGUST 12, 2015

In my experience from working at an advertising technology company, the reasons are clear: they are easy to install and immediately effective, they make the web look cleaner and load faster, and they prevent advertisers from tracking user activity online. With 200 million downloads and counting, ad blockers are quickly growing in popularity.

Advertising 8

Advertising Content Fixed Costs Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. 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 12

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 12