Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event. As a result, it might reason that future sales will be low, too, because most forecasts are based on past experience. Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

The seller calculates all costs, fixed and variable, that have been or will be incurred in manufacturing the product, and then applies a markup percentage to these costs to estimate the asking price. The markup is stipulated by the buyer, as is often the case with government contracts, or it can be chosen by the manager. (I

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AIHR

APRIL 20, 2023

Various models have emerged that calculates the impact of learning spend and equate it to productivity, customer satisfaction, increased sales or improvement in revenue. They also have a manufacturing plant in Indiana, a sales division spread across different regions and a head office in New York.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

government. Car sales in the U.S. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact. It displayed a 10% decrease in revenue growth while the other unit exhibited sales growth of 75%. In recent years, both companies exhibited compressed margins, flat revenue growth, and lagging returns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Last Wednesday, government sources claimed the Department of Justice’s antitrust division was demanding that AT&T sell Turner Broadcasting channels, including CNN, as a condition for approving the deal — and that AT&T had refused, setting up a possible court challenge. Britta Knappmann/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

sale or other transfer of ownership." But since books have low marginal cost (printing and distribution) relative to fixed costs (research, writing, and editing), Wiley can profitably sell its textbooks there at lower prices. Originally a judge-made principle, "first sale" was codified in a 1909 revision of U.S.

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