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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. But a solution could come by following the example of the lean, agile, and India-based company Bharti AirTel Limited.

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Regulation Is Hurting Cabs and Helping Uber

Harvard Business Review

Thus, Uber is pricing below its variable costs. Interestingly, if Uber had a large market share (which to be clear, it doesn’t), pricing below its variable costs would have put the company at risk of being charged with predatory pricing by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.