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Operating Leverage: A New Dimension
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013Hitherto, in determining Operating Leverage, it is assumed that selling price does not vary with changing price of goods, thus inherently violating the Law of Demand, where price and quantity are inversely proportional to each other. This paper presents the sensitivity of Operating profits to simultaneous change in selling price and quantity of goods ...
Nirmal Ghorawat, Ronak Shah
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Distribution Systems and Operating Leverage
Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2005This paper presents a model in which firms compete in a Cournot-Nash game. Firms can choose an exclusive agency (EA) or an independent agency (IA) distribution system. Firms can enter and exit the market and switch distribution systems with no cost. The only difference between an EA system and an IA system is the operating leverage or cost structure ...
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Leveraging Knowledge for Operational Excellence
Journal of Knowledge Management, 1997A recognition that pockets of business and process excellence existed alongside mediocrity led Texas Instruments to establish a Best Practice Sharing programme under the direction of the Office of Best Practices. The Office of Best Practices, launched in 1994, is a dedicated unit which helps Texas Instruments’ worldwide businesses to identify, access ...
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Operating Leverage, Profitability, and Capital Structure
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2018Operating leverage increases profitability and reduces optimal financial leverage. Thus, operating leverage generates a negative relation between profitability and financial leverage that is thought to be inconsistent with the trade-off theory but is commonly observed in the data.
Zhiyao Chen +2 more
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Operating Leverage and Corporate Financial Policies
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011Using a measure of operating leverage that directly reflects the importance of fixed operating costs in firms’ cost structures, we show that high fixed cost firms have lower leverage ratios and also much larger cash holdings than low fixed cost firms.
Matthias Kahl +2 more
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Cash Holdings and Operating Leverage
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016Since the 1980s, U.S. publicly listed firms almost doubled their average cash holdings. In line with a precautionary motive, this process is often associated with an increase in firms' riskiness. In fact, not only sales volatility has increased, but also operating costs volatility has increased by less, so that costs became relatively more fixed over ...
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Operating Leverage and Inflation
The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2022Martin L. Leibowitz, Stanley Kogelman
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Leveraging Cyberspace in Counterinsurgency Operations
2010Abstract : Military forces today are facing traditional, irregular, catastrophic, and disruptive challenges. U.S. military forces are conducting counterinsurgency operations (COIN) in populated neighborhoods amongst innocent people. The enemy is using insurgency and hybrid warfare to make it more difficult for the United States and coalition forces to ...
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Tesla: understanding operational leverage
The Business & Management Collection, 2023openaire +1 more source
Leveraging Data for Improved Utility Operations
Opflow, 2013Many municipalities have used automated meter‐reading systems to effectively achieve business objectives. New technology allows utilities to collect more granular measurement data more frequently, providing vital statistics to enable proactive management and efficient decision making.
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