Scale Economies

Observations that the case writers have about the scale economies cases.

Behind the scale advantage of the world‘s most important semiconductor manufacturer.

Why scale is such an important component of Amazon's core strategy, and why it dictates so much of what the company does.

What happens when something about your market forces you to spend a fixed % of sales on marketing? The result: the scale player has an ongoing advantage.

Scale economies in Singapore's coffee shop and food court industry.

How Texas Instruments weaponised the learning curve in semiconductor manufacturing, and then pushed it too far.

Sometimes, scale advantages can come from your position in the market, not necessarily from production unit costs.

How Netflix's pivot to content may be considered a defensive pursuit of economies of scale.

What it looked like when Henry Ford discovered the fundamental principles of scale economies ... from scratch and through trial and error.