Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For example, a divested business may inherit assets and capabilities that have been starved of investment by its former parent. The insiders bring a detailed understanding of the company’s assets, capabilities, customers, competitors, and stakeholders. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

Assets 11

Assets Revenue Energy Fixed Costs 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

During an economic crisis, the exaggerated decline in orders can be especially damaging to upstream suppliers that have high fixed costs tied to production assets. This phenomenon has been documented in the consumer-packaged-goods , food , semiconductor-manufacturing , and other industries.

Sales 15

Sales Sales Operations Fixed Costs 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

Imagine eliminating all of the redundancies in fixed costs. America’s foundations are sitting on a trillion dollars in assets. Consolidating databases and information and talent. Imagine the strength of the acumen and the voice. Imagine the sense of pride it would engender. ” people will say.

Nonprofit 13

Nonprofit Diversity Fixed Costs Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

For example, a decade ago, it''s unlikely that small-business owners would have told you that they needed a flexible way to host data and applications, one that preferably turned the fixed cost of computer hardware into a variable cost of renting capacity. When the company rides an enabling trend.

Fixed Costs 8

Fixed Costs Variable Costs Assets Banking 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. McKinsey’s margin growth measure classified firms that report higher earnings growth than revenue growth as myopic.

Metrics 11

Metrics Cash Flow Revenue Compensation 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As Marshall Van Alstyne, Geoffrey Parker, and Sangeet Choudary articulated recently in HBR , “With a platform, the critical asset is the community and the resources of its members.” On any given day in America, 40% of hospital beds lie empty, their enormous fixed costs weighing heavily on the system.

Hospitality 12

Hospitality Administration Transportation Fixed Costs 12

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.

Hospitality 9

Hospitality Scaling Revenue Fixed Costs 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., it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade.

Fixed Costs 17

Fixed Costs Revenue Assets Scaling 17

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., it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade.

Fixed Costs 10

Fixed Costs Revenue Assets Scaling 10

AIHR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Examples include an external management consultant who advises companies on improving efficiency or a cybersecurity consultant who helps organizations protect their digital assets. For example, a finance graduate may join a structured training program for asset management at a bank. Salary format: A stipend or low salary.

Insurance 98

Insurance Staffing Compensation Benefits 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Such narrowly focused conditions would be far less intrusive than the forced sale of some assets or outright rejection of the deal–remedies whose very existence would torpedo a broader legal challenge.

Government 11

Government Media Fixed Costs Marketing 11