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High Expectations: Managing For Value In The Automotive Industry

Chief Executive

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.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization. As the U.S.

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Research: Cloud Computing Is Helping Smaller, Newer Firms Compete

Harvard Business Review

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.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

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