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 121

B2B Travel Benchmarking Sales 121

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 132

Company Agile Training Training 132

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

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 99

Bain Marketing Advertising Media 99

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

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 133

Boston Consulting Group Study Conference Survey 133

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

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 168

Development Real Estate Retail Guidelines 168

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

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 95

Interviews Company Insurance Insurance 95

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

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

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 81

Government Financial Insurance Insurance 81

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

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 Recruiting 125

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.”

Retail 40

Retail Operations 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

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

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. The system was an important development for our team because it gave us a clear, direct metric to demonstrate our value to senior management.

Engineering 70

Engineering Productivity Development Operations 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies. In that year, these improvements resulted in 15,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions avoided and savings of nearly $11 million. 3%; a market capitalization loss of $378M per firm.”

Study 70

Study Productivity Efficiency Operations 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. These metrics include length of stay, return to surgery, infection rates, and procedure-specific outcomes such as joint dislocation after hip replacement and nerve covering tears occurring during spinal surgery.

Healthcare 71

Healthcare System Insurance Insurance 71

Comatch

MAY 16, 2022

At COP21 in Paris in 2015, all participating countries agreed to work together to “ limit global warming to well below 2 degrees and aim for 1.5 EU importers and non-EU producers of these inputs will be required to pay around 75 EUR per metric ton of CO2 emissions. degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.”

Chemicals 52

Chemicals Energy Metrics Industry 52

Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 15, 2023

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. A blind passion for results damages a leader's reputation and the organization. Leadership behaviors guide actions, but a leader's character determines how and if the leader acts.

Leadership 76

Leadership Journal Development Survey 76

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Similarly, in 2015 Techstars committed to doubling the representation of women and minorities in their programs within four years. But CEOs have the power to champion diversity by leading by example, setting goals and utilizing metrics, and holding their companies accountable.

Case Interview 71

Case Interview Interviews Talent Leadership 71

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

But after a few discussions, it looked reasonable, specifically in terms of the financial metrics.” ” Ultimately, Nokia acquired Nokia-Siemens Networks in 2013, and started expanding the networks business, also acquiring Alcatel-Lucent in 2015.

Strategy 72

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Analysis 72

MishTalk

AUGUST 27, 2015

For example, the Consumer Metrics Institute says " On the surface this report shows solid economic growth for the US economy during the second quarter of 2015. Consumer Metrics Caveats A significant portion of the "solid growth" in this headline number could be the result of understated BEA inflation data.

Metrics 28

Metrics Government Banking Report 28