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A Quick Guide to Breakeven Analysis

Harvard Business Review

Managers typically use breakeven analysis to set a price to understand the economic impact of various price- and sales-volume scenario. It’s a simple calculation to determine how many units must be sold at a given price to cover one’s fixed costs. Assume she must incur a fixed cost of $25,500 to produce and sell a kite.

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A Quick Guide to Breakeven Analysis

Harvard Business Review

Managers typically use breakeven analysis to set a price to understand the economic impact of various price- and sales-volume scenario. It’s a simple calculation to determine how many units must be sold at a given price to cover one’s fixed costs. Assume she must incur a fixed cost of $25,500 to produce and sell a kite.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. And the fixed cost from “touchpoint-to-pilot” are immense. In essence, the venture client, instead of equity, buys the technology of a startup when it is still a venture to do so.

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Is Rooftop Solar Finally Good Enough to Disrupt the Grid?

Harvard Business Review

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. from 2012 through 2014. And SunPower, the second largest U.S.

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What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential

Harvard Business Review

It has InsideNGO, which works to improve the operational and management capacity of organizations in the global NGO community. Imagine eliminating all of the redundancies in fixed costs. It has the evaluating agencies that do their best to give the public information on various charities.