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Human-Centered Leadership | Renee Moorefield

Peter Winick

And then when things started to turn, return to normal or semi-normal or whatever, they tried to move that as much as they could to a variable cost instead of bringing back the bench. The scaling model where the oh, there’s software as a service or something like that or an app or whatever is that.

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A Quick Guide to Breakeven Analysis

Harvard Business Review

These costs might cover the software needed to design the kite and be sure it is sufficiently aerodynamic, the fee paid to a graphic designer to design the look and feel of the kite, and the development of promotional materials used to advertise the kite. These costs are fixed because they will not change with the number of kites sold.

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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business Review

But to me, the most fascinating thing about the whole initiative is the organizational mindset shift it’s creating: a realization about the value of getting smarter about how — and where — operations use energy. Operations in a Connected World. This black box approach can’t last. Insight Center.

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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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A Quick Guide to Breakeven Analysis

Harvard Business Review

These costs might cover the software needed to design the kite and be sure it is sufficiently aerodynamic, the fee paid to a graphic designer to design the look and feel of the kite, and the development of promotional materials used to advertise the kite. These costs are fixed because they will not change with the number of kites sold.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).