Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

It's the growing fidelity demands of today's internet population, as they transition from text, image, and standard-definition media-sharing, to high-definition (and even 4K) file transfer. Today, billions of people are increasingly using the same pipes to deliver billions of HD media files. We're facing a congestion crisis.

Fixed Costs 17

Fixed Costs Revenue Assets Scaling 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. 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. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

Assets 12

Assets Operations Insurance Telecommunications 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

It's the growing fidelity demands of today's internet population, as they transition from text, image, and standard-definition media-sharing, to high-definition (and even 4K) file transfer. Today, billions of people are increasingly using the same pipes to deliver billions of HD media files. We're facing a congestion crisis.

Fixed Costs 10

Fixed Costs Revenue Assets Scaling 10

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. As the bullwhip roars and media reports increase the fear in the marketplace, companies can expect consumers to become more frugal.

Sales 15

Sales Sales Operations Fixed Costs 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

General Motor’s announcement that it plans to idle five North American factories and cut 14,000 jobs has sparked much discussion in the media and outrage in Washington. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Then there is the question of how to reallocate assets.

Fixed Costs 14

Fixed Costs Assets Cash Flow Variable Costs 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

What if the sector had one coordinated force doing its advocacy, its media, its communications, its legal defense, and its grassroots organizing, and this was all connected to a merged effort to take the best practices of the evaluators and combine them into one powerful new information engine for the public? ” people will say.

Nonprofit 13

Nonprofit Diversity Fixed Costs Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While some large mergers have been scuttled in recent years, this one is different, principally because the parties occupy different rungs in the media industry supply chain. That’s certainly true in media industries, which are driven by broadband, mobile devices, and new video platforms preferred by younger consumers.

Government 11

Government Media Fixed Costs Marketing 11