Assets Fixed Costs Operations 
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 1: Virtual operator.
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.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. For example , U.S.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2013
Evidence of this pressure is starkly captured in the return on assets (ROA) for all public companies in the US since 1965. They have systematically and significantly eroded barriers to entry and movement on a global scale. The result is relentlessly mounting performance pressure.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2017
While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.
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.
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