Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

During this time, the industry’s EP growth was challenged as margins were squeezed by declining global volumes and high fixed costs. The result: 31 percent TSR for OEMs (versus 29 percent for S&P 500), more than quadruple the TSRs delivered from 2016 to 2019. ACHIEVING AND SUSTAINING TOP-QUARTILE PERFORMANCE.

Cash Flow 52

Cash Flow Manager Fixed Costs Metrics 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

By cutting the fixed costs of computing — avoiding the need to hire IT staff, servers, and hardware — even the smallest firm can satisfy large and unexpected computing needs. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%. firms since the 1980s. economy.

Scaling 14

Scaling Fixed Costs Software Education 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

According to an October 2016 Pew poll , only about half of Americans believe that climate change is due to human activity. A drug company must incur a large fixed cost to do the basic research, so it has strong incentives to predict what the demand for the drug will be if its research succeeds.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Fixed Costs Marketing Benefits 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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. The result: hospitals lost $49 billion in 2016 treating Medicare patients, a number that’s surely higher now.

Hospitality 14

Hospitality Manager Nonprofit Staffing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” There, in the shadow of Google’s global headquarters, the audience laughed on cue, quickly grokking the embarrassing point: it’s 2016 and this $3 trillion industry that our lives depend upon still relies on faxes, clipboards, and isolated instances of legacy software locked away in hospital basements.

Hospitality 13

Hospitality Administration Transportation Fixed Costs 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters.

Balance Sheet 12

Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Fixed Costs 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Similarly, during the 2016 election, many American voters found journalistic content less relevant than what they were experiencing in their own lives.

Media 15

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Marketing 15