Peter Winick

JUNE 13, 2024

Their profession and what they love is sales and business development. But they don’t often love doing that sales and business development work. 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.

Scaling 243

Scaling Variable Costs Culture Change Metrics 243

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).

Variable Costs 18

Variable Costs Fixed Costs Sales Sales 18

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).

Variable Costs 10

Variable Costs Fixed Costs Sales Sales 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting July 1st — the beginning of the company's fiscal year 2013 — the software giant will charge all of its 100-plus global offices and datacenters a fee for every ton of carbon they produce (mostly from plugging into the electric grid, so-called "indirect" emissions). Sales/Becoming the Vendor of Choice.

Energy 16

Energy Variable Costs Travel Operations 16