asset light
description: a business model where a company owns fewer capital assets compared to its operations, often relying on outsourcing and leasing
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The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians
by Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar · 14 Oct 2024 · 175pp · 46,192 words
industry.46 The biggest hotel brands, however, don’t own most of their hotels outright. They enter into franchising agreements with hotels to maintain an asset-light approach to controlling the industry. Marriott shows thirty-two of its forty hotels and brands it either owns or has licensing agreements with in the
Work in the Future The Automation Revolution-Palgrave MacMillan (2019)
by Robert Skidelsky Nan Craig · 15 Mar 2020
. First of all, what is Uber’s business model? They are what I have elsewhere called a ‘lean platform’.1 They aim to be very asset light: they try to own as little as possible. Uber, for instance does not own the cars; they do not have to pay for fuel; they
Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy
by Jeremias Prassl · 7 May 2018 · 491pp · 77,650 words
-entrepreneur’ is designed to ‘disrupt’. A complete lack of employment protection (and the significant cost savings that come with it) is crucial to on-demand, ‘asset-light’ operations’ offers of cheap and abundant services. It is not difficult to find instances of genuine entrepreneurship in the gig economy: think of a plumber
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eco- nomic perspectives: the company’s efforts seem to lag significantly behind competitors’ technological advances.75 In any event, why would Uber replace its current asset-light model, under which drivers bear the full cost of pro- viding cars, petrol, and their time, with a massive investment in an expensive fleet of
Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
by Ali Tamaseb · 14 Sep 2021 · 251pp · 80,831 words
looked at the least capital-efficient companies among billion-dollar startups, again I found a mix of software, SaaS, pharma, and physical products. Some otherwise asset-light software companies needed to spend a lot on marketing, customer acquisition, and sales, which increased their capital spent over the long run. Even within SaaS
Quality Investing: Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term
by Torkell T. Eide, Lawrence A. Cunningham and Patrick Hargreaves · 5 Jan 2016 · 178pp · 52,637 words
measure of a company’s asset intensity. Or, put another way, how much capital needs to remain in the business in order to generate sales. Asset-light industries are attractive since they require less capital to be deployed in order to generate sales growth. The finest examples are franchise operations, such as
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capital and capex that higher volumes entail, will inevitably rise to some extent as volume grows. As a result, volume growth is particularly valuable for asset-light businesses boasting high margins and those with high operating leverage, such as pharmaceutical or software companies. Cyclical market growth Cyclicality is a double-edged sword
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at the flip of a switch; even manufacturing companies typically produce spare parts using machinery and equipment already in operation. Specific service activity is also asset-light – usually personnel and a simple set of tools. The combination of potentially negative working capital, rapid cash flows, and low capital expenditure to support growth
The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models
by Barry Libert and Megan Beck · 6 Jun 2016 · 285pp · 58,517 words
another great example. With more than twelve hundred properties under management, Starwood is currently pursuing an asset-light strategy, selling about $1.5 billion in property from 2013 to 2015. The hope is that an asset-light strategy will enable greater market flexibility and focus on the core business, which is property management and
The Unusual Billionaires
by Saurabh Mukherjea · 16 Aug 2016
, data. Page started operations in 1995 with capital employed of only Rs 1 crore. Given the shortage of capital, the management team kept the business asset-light by using various methods such as leasing land instead of outright purchase, outsourcing capital-intensive processes like spinning, knitting and weaving, and incurring capex only
The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
by Irene Yuan Sun · 16 Oct 2017 · 239pp · 62,311 words
Growth and Opportunity Act. Congress did eventually approve the deal, but not before half of the clothing firms in Lesotho had shut down. For relatively asset-light types of manufacturing such as garment production, any change in conditions can spook at least some manufacturers away to other locales. I went across town
Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
by Adam Lashinsky · 31 Mar 2017 · 190pp · 62,941 words
remarkable about Red Swoosh’s plan isn’t just its tweak on the commercially attractive aspects of Scour, but how it foreshadowed the so-called asset-light strategy that would be Uber’s secret sauce. Just as Red Swoosh software would push and pull files from personal computers owned by others, Uber
Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win
by Chris Kuenne and John Danner · 5 Jun 2017 · 276pp · 64,903 words
of the waste business became his mission and that of the company he founded and runs, Rubicon Global. He created what is known as an asset-light business, in which his firm owns no trucks or landfills, but rather provides a brokering system, as Uber does with passenger cars. Morris aspired to
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–120, 138, 139 Apple, 17, 154 AppNexus, 58–60, 65–66, 74, 220–221 ARC Document Solutions, 129–130 Arnold & Porter, 118 Arvai, Peter, 127 asset-light businesses, 94–95 autocratic behavior, 80 Bai Brands, 4–5, 32, 41–42, 48, 52 customer dynamic at, 39 Bain Capital, 104 Bank of America
Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future
by Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson · 27 Mar 2017 · 293pp · 78,439 words
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by Christopher W Mayer · 21 May 2018
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe · 3 Oct 2022 · 689pp · 134,457 words
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by Natalie Berg and Miya Knights · 28 Jan 2019 · 404pp · 95,163 words
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by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie · 6 May 2019 · 328pp · 84,682 words
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends
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The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism
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America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
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Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
by Tim Higgins · 2 Aug 2021 · 430pp · 135,418 words
Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success
by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland and Rob Wertheimer · 13 Jul 2020 · 372pp · 101,678 words
Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
by Jeff Gramm · 23 Feb 2016 · 384pp · 103,658 words
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
The Firm
by Duff McDonald · 1 Jun 2014 · 654pp · 120,154 words
Inner Entrepreneur: A Proven Path to Profit and Peace
by Grant Sabatier · 10 Mar 2025 · 442pp · 126,902 words
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
by Reeves Wiedeman · 19 Oct 2020 · 303pp · 100,516 words
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell · 19 Jul 2021 · 460pp · 130,820 words
Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice
by Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallocchio, Yann le Fur and Antonio Salvi · 16 Oct 2017 · 1,544pp · 391,691 words
The Smartest Guys in the Room
by Bethany McLean · 25 Nov 2013 · 778pp · 233,096 words
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
by Varun Sivaram · 2 Mar 2018 · 469pp · 132,438 words