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. Uncertain economic times present an excellent vowel-buying opportunity.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

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).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

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. My driver’s job existed because a small group of venture-backed entrepreneurs created a technology platform that matched up cars and drivers with people who were willing to pay for a ride.

Long-term 10

Long-term Fixed Costs Short-term Technology 10

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.

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

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 Technology'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. In other words, climate skeptics don’t just stymie progress on climate policy.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Aggregate Demand Incentives Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

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. Because the technology is still developing, they would need not only capital but also a good deal of technical expertise.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Finance 8

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 11

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 11

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. Guidelines for selecting an appropriate model.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. 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. Do your colleagues understand that your spending is meant to benefit everyone?

Strategy 9

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 9

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 10

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 10

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

JULY 22, 2011

It was in your home, had no shelf space limiting its inventory, and could beat Tower on price because of its lower fixed costs. With a basic grasp of technology innovation trends, Tower should have known as much and immediately begun running around with its hair on fire.

Christensen 16

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Companies are investing millions of dollars in business intelligence technology. Similarly, business intelligence must be viewed against the backdrop of a clear vision, goals, and strategy, and used as a means to getting there, rather than viewed in isolation or as a technology initiative. Information & technology'

Business Intelligence 8

Business Intelligence Information Technology Uncertainty Fixed Costs 8

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. Such misplaced optimism potentially masks underinvestment in technology needed to keep up with the competition. Creative accounting measures.

EPS 9

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 9

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 9

Company ROIC CFO ROE 9

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

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Modest reductions in the cost of borrowing and in supply costs achieved in mergers are often washed out by higher executive compensation, more layers of management, and information technology outlays, leading to higher, rather than lower, operating expenses.

Cost 11

Cost System Management Franchising 11

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

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

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., Economies of scope can allow hospital systems to leverage their scale to develop new revenue streams.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 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.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 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. Think of the potential for this kind of orchestration of resources in healthcare where waste accounts for an estimated $750 billion annually. Or take medical appointments.

Health Care 9

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 9

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 124

Creativity Innovation Trends Decentralization 124

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., Needless to say, I believe in this technology. a distributed computing company.

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., Needless to say, I believe in this technology. a distributing computing company.

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

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. Consumers in Thailand, on average, have less to spend on books and other media than Americans.

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. Consumers in Thailand, on average, have less to spend on books and other media than Americans.

Price 9

Price Open-book Retail Content 9

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