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Incentive Pay Challenges And Opportunities In 2023  

Chief Executive

The primary reason is that most organizations tie their base salary increase budgets to the cost of labor in relevant markets (as opposed to cost of living or inflation). While the cost of labor and cost of living/inflation usually directionally correlate, there are typically gaps between these two measures.

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A Quick Guide to Breakeven Analysis

Harvard Business Review

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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An HBR Refresher on Breakeven Quantity

Harvard Business Review

Marketers often have to make the call on whether a certain marketing investment is worth the cost. Can you justify the price tag of the ad you want to buy or the marketing campaign you’re hoping to launch next quarter? The variable costs to make each pair of flip flops are $14.00. BEQ = 200 units.

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A Quick Guide to Breakeven Analysis

Harvard Business Review

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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The Smart Way to Make Profits While Serving the Poor

Harvard Business Review

However, as I discussed in my last post , the model has a fatal flaw: It inevitably requires an impractical penetration rate of the target market — often 30% or more of all consumers in an area. The company saves on labor costs because local wage rates are low. At the bottom of the pyramid, it's a losing proposition.

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The Customers Who Are Happy to Pay More for Less

Harvard Business Review

Size is perhaps the most neglected marketing tool. On a search of EBSCO’s Business Source Complete , I counted no less than 1,890 articles published in marketing journals in the past 10 years about price, but only 22 addressing package or service size issues. The New Tools of Marketing. Insight Center.

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Xiaomi, Not Apple, Is Changing the Smartphone Industry

Harvard Business Review

Customers that are relatively less risky and more predictable can make it easier for new to firms gain a market foothold. Second, because they can’t yet afford the high-margin top brands, they’re not all that attractive to incumbents worried about generating enough cash to cover their high fixed and variable costs. A neat trick.