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Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?

Harvard Business

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The year before, prompted by all this, Lumiscape’s leadership had decided to pivot from a sales model to a subscription model. “Higher!”

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. “You’re not managing specific business decisions, you’re trying to understand and internalize how the models work” and the assumptions they make. What if revenue was higher?

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Indeed, some analysts have gone a step further, declaring that subscription boxes are in the midst of a venture capital-fueled bubble not unlike the flash-sale business craze that ended five years ago. Case Study: Blue Apron. that aggregate sales in the U.S. grocery market were almost $800 billion, only 1.2%