Chief Executive

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There is a delicate balancing act happening in many organizations where there is a need to: • Be conservative in hiring activity and managing variable labor expenses, and. Supplemental compensation practices to offset inflation. Reward existing talent—and especially top talent—as competitively as possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Managers typically use breakeven analysis to set a price to understand the economic impact of various price- and sales-volume scenario. These costs are fixed because they will not change with the number of kites sold. Therefore, the unit variable costs to make a single kite is: $50 ($20 in materials and $30 in labor).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

To understand more about how contribution margin works, I talked with Joe Knight, author of HBR Tools: Business Valuation and cofounder and owner of business-literacy.com , who says “it’s a common financial analysis tool that’s not very well understood by managers.” ” What Is Contribution Margin?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

“It’s one of the more popular ways that managers calculate marketing ROI,” says Avery, pointing out that other common ones include calculating the investment payback period, calculating an internal rate of return, and using net present value analysis. The variable costs to make each pair of flip flops are $14.00.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Managers typically use breakeven analysis to set a price to understand the economic impact of various price- and sales-volume scenario. These costs are fixed because they will not change with the number of kites sold. Therefore, the unit variable costs to make a single kite is: $50 ($20 in materials and $30 in labor).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2015

It seems that marketing managers seldom question the product sizes they’ve inherited. In a restaurant experiment, he found that pricing half portions at 70% of the price of the regular size more than compensated for lower margins by attracting additional consumers. How leading companies connect with customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

In an attempt to buff out my real-life rough edges I tend to over-compensate by trying to add excess functionality to my website. In this modular era for workers, some principles of user design can be applied not only to building websites, but to each of us as managers, free agent workers, and freelancers.

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