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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business Review

Car sales in the U.S. But car sales are now probably past a cyclical peak, not only in the U.S. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. GM has good immediate reasons for its decisions. Given the shift in immediate U.S.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

The company should separately present fixed and variable costs, and to the extent possible, detail the variable costs associated with a unit of activity. For example, Twitter provides “cost per ad engagement.” The analyst can then top that valuation with the option values of moonshot projects.