Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Our publicly available metrics including CEO approval ratings from staff, ratio of women on boards, and number of accounting infractions and scandals. This year we added a carbon metric. This is evidenced by the drop in Deutsche Bank from 40th in 2015 to 110th this year and by Wells Fargo plummeting from 20th to 130th.

Company 70

Company Ethics Methodologies Automotive 70

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2017

Consider the infamous case of Seattle credit card processer Gravity Payments, which, in 2015, set a minimum salary of $70,000 for all employees. While sports are different from other industries in many respects, baseball makes a good test case for this kind of study for several reasons.

Data 108

Data Sports Metrics Case Interview 108

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

As Strategy& reported in its 2015 survey of 1,757 executives, “innovation today is a key driver of organic growth for all companies — regardless of sector or geography.” We know innovation drives corporate growth. GDP growth over the past 30 years.

Company 125

Company Research Industry Engineering 125

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. Consider what’s happened with travel: With the explosion of internet travel sites in the 2000s, consumers took charge of their own travel, and travel agencies hemorrhaged business. Fast forward to today.

B2B 120

B2B Travel Benchmarking Sales 120

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

PFK tracks data across all the more than 20 AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators , as well as metrics on utilization , which has led to improved quality of care and cost savings among its Medicaid population of children. PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities.

Metrics 127

Metrics Efficiency System Development 127

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

So, in August 2015 we secured board approval to create an innovation committee of 14 top executives and a full-time innovation strategy team of five people, to orchestrate the portfolio of specific initiatives that would create a new way of innovating throughout the company. This isn’t a challenge we have completely resolved.

Company 131

Company Agile Training Training 131

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A 2015 systematic review of physician leadership development programs found that few reported negative outcomes or system level effects (i.e. impact of training on quality metrics) of their interventions.

Training 132

Training Training Leadership Healthcare 132

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

album sales, both physical and digital, have plummeted from a peak of 785 million in 2000 to just 241 million in 2015. Looking at the academic research on the topic and our own data set of 2,400 top-selling albums from 1992 to 2015, two patterns about music quality emerged. CDs) and downloaded songs (e.g.,

Metrics 70

Metrics Sales Industry Data 70

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Fortune counted more than 170 of the mythical creatures , with an average of one unicorn born every week during 2015. In 2015, Alon Halevy, a former Google research scientist, joined the company to help guide this effort. Today the number of unicorns—startups that valued at $1 billion or greater—is staggering.

Productivity 70

Productivity Company Recruiting Recruitment 70

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

search interest for “ open now ” grew 300 percent from June 2015 to June 2017. more likely to refresh their most critical marketing metrics and dashboards at least weekly. With advancing technology, people are again changing how they search — and time is of the essence. Google data shows that in the U.S.,

Bain 97

Bain Marketing Advertising Media 97

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In addition, many companies reward executives with extra shares when they hit prescribed financial metrics, augmenting potential ARG not captured in EFV. As shown in the exhibit below, for each of the years 2006 through 2015 the average total compensation of the 500 highest-paid U.S. million (57% from stock-based pay).

Exercises 70

Exercises Report Pharmaceuticals Financial 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

While there will still be high-stakes, time-sensitive issues like beating a competitor to market with a new product, acknowledge that endurance is the goal, and speed is not the best or only metric of long-term success. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

Boston Consulting Group 134

Boston Consulting Group Study Conference Survey 134

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Even smaller cities like Portland, Nashville, and Austin are attempting to curb their own deep-seated divides. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

Development 175

Development Real Estate Retail Guidelines 175

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In March 2015, Target hired three outsiders as “entrepreneurs-in-residence.” That’s not true of public companies, where quarterly metrics are scrutinized by analysts, and activist investors can buy up large stakes and push for change. ” By June 2017, all three had been cut loose and their projects shelved.

Interviews 102

Interviews Company Insurance Insurance 102

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. With this metric, the gap between long-term companies and the rest is even bigger.

Management 70

Management Metrics Financial Company 70

BCG

OCTOBER 12, 2016

(Technology intensity is a proprietary metric that analyzes technology spending relative to a company’s and an industry’s revenues and to their operating expenses.). For example, annual productivity growth in the US from 2007 through 2015 hovered at a sluggish 1.3% average rate, half the rate from 2000 to 2007.

Metrics 40

Metrics Productivity Operations Examples 40

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. Cost increases of about $400mm are expected to be offset by other synergies in the two separate companies at the end of 2017. Greg Kesler and Amy Kates.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Most recently, in 2015, BTS acquired AVO Vision, a company that develops tools and curriculum with a focus on communication to help boost performance and team morale. Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. 2015 Annual Report. BTS GROUP LINKS.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

.” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. That metric is often expressed in the form of a ratio. Case Study #2: Learn the metrics your company uses to measure success. “They’re not hard to calculate.

Finance 70

Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

In 2015, in fact, it spent more than $500 million to acquire two popular fitness-metrics services in a bid to become the world’s largest tracker of fitness information. Instead of thinking of itself merely as a sports apparel manufacturer, the company has purposefully developed a “connected fitness” ecosystem.

Marketing 134

Marketing Apparel Retail Company 134

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better).

Management 110

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 110

BCG

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The 2016 rankings are based on an analysis of TSR at approximately 2,000 companies worldwide from 2011 through 2015. The global and industry rankings are based on five-year TSR performance from 2011 through 2015. To arrive at this sample, we began with TSR data for nearly 44,000 companies provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Insurance 40

Insurance Insurance Metrics Industry 40

BCG

MAY 2, 2016

The 2016 rankings are based on an analysis of TSR at approximately 2,000 companies worldwide from 2011 through 2015. It is the most comprehensive metric for performance in shareholder value creation. TSR measures the combination of share price gains and dividend yield for a company’s stock over a given period.

Boston Consulting Group 40

Boston Consulting Group Company Metrics Analysis 40

BCG

JULY 20, 2016

For instance, the growth of global gross domestic product (GDP)—one of the traditional metrics of globalization—fell from a high of 6% in the 1960s to 3% in 2015. To succeed in this new era, companies need to think about globalization in a different way, using different metrics, and devise a new framework to develop winning strategies.

Metrics 40

Metrics Trends Media Development 40

Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. We know everything. We don’t need to change.” ” How wrong they are! GM market share fell from 62.6% CEOs do not communicate well.

Study 88

Study Emotional Intelligence Leadership Finance 88

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Nor does the board issue a compensation report, which explains the rationale and metrics for setting executive compensation. In 2015, Japan reformed its corporate governance code to require boards to have at least two independent directors. Nissan was among 11 companies in Japan’s TOPIX 500 to resist this reform.

Government 80

Government Financial Insurance Insurance 80

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Consultants are very risk averse and are very hyper focused on issues like GPA and other metrics – not because they are a perfect indicator, but because there are a decent indicator of whether or not somebody is going to be able to manage work that sometimes is really exciting, and sometimes kind of mundane.

Consulting 125

Consulting Resumes Bain Recruitment 125

Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2015

Last week I discussed Rotary’s emphasis on sustainability, training and the use of metrics on International projects. The background is Rotary rejected our first grant application for 2015 as we were primarily “giving stuff.” We have to have metrics. ” They want training.

Metrics 40

Metrics Training Training Exercises 40

BCG

MAY 9, 2016

This edition of the REBEX benchmarking, conducted in 2015, assessed premier-league banks, which together represented approximately 220 million customers and 26,300 branches worldwide. At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics. We refer to these banks as the “premier league.”

Operations 40

Operations Retail Banking Benchmarking 40

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

On this metric, countries like Ghana, Venezuela, and Guatemala perform better than we do. In the past 20 years, the number of female top executives has risen only from 10% to 15% (1995-2015). Given all of this, we rank surprisingly low — 80th in the world — when it comes to leveling out the gender gap in leadership.

Policies 71

Policies Education Leadership System 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools.

Metrics 70

Metrics Data Resources Operations 70

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Estimated to be valued at around $50B as of July 2015, Uber has experienced a rapid (to say the least!) Uber was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, and the accompanying Uber app was launched the next year in June. Operational worldwide, Uber offers its transportation network services in 58 countries and over 300 cities.

Culture 100

Culture Case Interview Interviews Transportation 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). These organizations are no longer concerned about defined roles, instead focusing on shared objectives and metrics to deliver on specific projects.

Agile 70

Agile Talent Data Efficiency 70

Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

I wrote and designed websites to help businesses exceed their KPIs — improving metrics like conversion rate, session duration, bounce rate, search engine optimization, page speed, and mobile responsiveness. University of British Columbia – History 2010 – 2015. Freelance – Web Designer (JAN 2014 – SEPT 2016).

Resumes 78

Resumes Productivity Education Marketing 78

Kai Davis

JANUARY 3, 2023

(This was both metric and sanity driven!). And for that, I used a metrics-based approach. I took some time and: Aggregated all product purchase information since 2015 (!). Looked at product performance (in terms of money in and units sold) over 2021 and 2022.

Metrics 40

Metrics System Productivity Sales 40

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. However, in phase three traditional data gathering and traditional metrics are not sufficient to ensure significantly differentiated value creation.

Talent 70

Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 70

Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

While current devices can capture important vital signs and other fitness metrics, their ability to diagnose and treat chronic conditions is currently limited. If a device is unable to collect clinically relevant data then it may not be possible to bill patients for it. Image: Pixabay. References: “Wearable Medical Devices Market Trends.”

Healthcare 74

Healthcare Insurance Insurance Data 74