Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost house; the cars; the latest consumer goods. If you had a full-time job, you won. All of that is changing.

Insurance 14

Insurance Reorganization Fixed Costs Benefits 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Successful companies are notoriously prone to pursuing tactical fixes rather than confronting strategic problems. They exhort their people to try harder, introduce overhead cost reduction programs, and reorganize – anything rather than admit that their strategy needs an overhaul. The answer is simple – selling more.

Reorganization 15

Reorganization Fixed Costs Transportation Sales 15

AIHR

APRIL 20, 2023

Organizations have started to re-evaluate learning channels, vendors and the need for sizable internal learning and development teams, as a starting point to manage costs. It is therefore unsurprising that this perception of learning contributes towards managers and leaders agreeing to the cutting of learning budgets.

Sales 98

Sales Sales Fixed Costs Marketing 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The success of an activist strategy is contingent upon placing a management team in an extremely reactive, frenzied and compromising position. Because by the time the activist has engaged senior management, they have already performed extensive due diligence on the company and have a detailed strategy they intend to pursue.

Balance Sheet 12

Balance Sheet Cash Flow Revenue Reorganization 12