Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

According to its annual report, those include financial metrics such as “attributable profit; underlying EBIT (earnings before interest and taxation); and total shareholder return (share price and dividends which are assumed to be reinvested).” For the last 20 years they’ve gone down a path forged largely by U.S.

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Financial Banking Metrics Benchmarking 120

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this article, we will explore the importance of profitability ratios and valuation metrics that are crucial when analyzing banks. There are seven key profitability ratios and two valuation metrics that it is important to understand. It is not a useful metric for comparing different business lines.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 29, 2020

Simple financial measures, like P&Ls, are an effective way to visibly drive leader accountability, yet they frequently do not match the complexity of today’s strategies. Metrics serve as a powerful motivator and unfortunately, are often perfectly designed to drive sub-optimal results.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2021

How to measure progress in a product that’s still getting off the ground.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In business, productivity and performance is often measured using financial ratios that can be used to compare firms across the industry. All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status. Using the metrics for decision making. Company goals – Is the change in the metric planned?

Metrics 88

Metrics Industry Benchmarking How To 88

Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2015

Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? One of the ideas that I’ve been thinking about recently is that financial metrics are basically designed to evaluate how much you are getting out of a company, your cash flow take from the company.

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Metrics Financial Cash Flow Process Improvement 60

Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

This element of MOM involves gathering and analyzing data on key performance indicators, e.g., production output, quality metrics, and equipment efficiency. In turn, safety measures will allow manufacturers to reduce these financial risks and optimize costs. Reporting and performance analysis.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 17, 2020

Second, I ask for specific metrics from their business. My job when doing a patient assessment is to capture the initial data set, track those metrics over time, and figure out the story the data is telling me. As I started to get better at understanding, recognizing, and interpreting these key metrics, I had an epiphany.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

While the specific strategy success metrics vary across different industries and different strategies, metrics tend to fall into four overall buckets: Financial, Customer, Employee, and Other. Here is a list of the top thirteen metrics that CEOs should measure for strategic success.

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Metrics Cash Flow Talent Financial 68

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Portfolio health metrics to track progress, budgets, and risks across projects. Reporting and Analytics Advanced reporting with customizable metrics for decision-making. Insights into KPIs such as project performance, resource utilization, and financial health. Alerts and tracking systems for unresolved issues.

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LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2024

Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics Workplace metrics impact workplace behaviors and performance. Designing the right strategy success metrics can mean the difference between a leadership team collectively steering toward its strategic targets and veering off course. Makes sense right? Wells Fargo opened 3.5

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Budgeting and Cost Control Tracks financial data, including budgets , expenses, and forecasts. Helps identify and address cost overruns early to ensure financial efficiency.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Some of these ideas contradict traditional financial thinking whereas others seem highly controversial or pessimistic. We distilled seven key insights from those discussions.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

Overly optimistic financial statements. Myopic companies may be more likely to minimize the expenses and liabilities they report on their financial statements. By spinning their accounting performance, they may postpone having to make hard strategic decisions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the sales discovery process, invest the time to uncover the leading and lagging success metrics tied directly to customers, employees, financials, and strategic initiatives that matter most to your buyer. Then articulate how your solution advances those metrics in a way that makes sense.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

” Because you are preparing a spreadsheet (a mini-financial model) on the fly, be prepared to adjust your inputs – just like you would on a real-life consulting project. Profitability is the ultimate business metric , and profitability cases can address a business in any industry. What is your most sensitive assumption?”

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Budgeting and Cost Control Tracks financial data, including budgets , expenses, and forecasts. Helps identify and address cost overruns early to ensure financial efficiency.

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Tools Management Software Resources 130

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case. had a diversity metric.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

.” However, we find no increased propensity for Wall Street analysts to revise their forecasts in response to a long-term plan, consistent with such analysts being primarily focused on the type of short-term financial results typically delivered through the earnings call.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

Monitoring performance and benefits delivery The CPO is responsible for monitoring project performance, tracking key metrics, and ensuring adherence to project timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Financial management A solid understanding of financial management principles and budgeting processes is important for a CPO.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics. The assumption is that financial measures like cost and revenue are sufficient metrics to measure progress. You need metrics that tell you how well your game plan is being executed — metrics that all of your players can organize around.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed. In part, it’s because we value and reward good management of financial capital. Invest human capital just like you invest financial capital. There you have it.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

These future-oriented Deere managers believe that frequent monitoring of motivation has become as essential to understanding the health and functioning of their teams as operational and financial metrics are to understanding whether the business is firing on all cylinders.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By embedding cultural priorities into hiring practices, performance metrics, and leadership development , a CEO ensures the organization’s ways of working remain a strategic enabler rather than a constraint. They adapt their leadership style to the strategic, financial, customer, and people needs of the moment.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This is typically a color-coded spreadsheet with one to two dozen key performance metrics. Each metric is reported each month. Each metric has a goal for the month. When a goal is met, the metric is color-coded in green. When a goal is missed by less than 10%, the metric is color-coded in yellow.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Make up for it: The first tactic was to compensate employees for the long work by rewarding them handsomely with financial and other benefits. To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked. Define a metric. Choose a metric for sustainable productivity.

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Productivity Metrics How To Meeting 136

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Ignorance of the flow metrics. A Short Rant Against Cost Accounting Every organization must report their financials using cost accounting. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost. Here are the four flow metrics: WIP: the current number of work items in progress.

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Metrics How To Efficiency Resources 63

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. ” GE is also using very different metrics for its platform businesses. The key metrics are assets on the platform , rather than margin or revenue growth.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

An organization is essentially the sum total of its physical, financial, human, intellectual, and relationship capital. This will require reporting on new metrics. Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types.

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How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 123

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Metrics Are Not Your Friends. A growing body of evidence shows that ethical companies outperform financially over time , but trying to translate such a broad finding into the short-term planning metrics used by most businesses is perilous. There are (at least) three major flaws with it. Let’s be clear.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Some of the most compelling evidence lay in the financial data. I wasn’t able to find every single metric for every single company, but the results were still striking. times as often in Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work, 2.1 times as often in Forbes’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, 4.4

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

This is another indication that developments in society represent financially material events for a company’s performance, thereby raising the need for high-quality investor-relevant data that assesses a company’s efforts to mitigate negative impacts and increase its positive impact. Short-termism.

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Company Financial Media Data 121

Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

We can argue over specific metrics, but we’d all agree that we have to account for physical as well as mental/emotional health. As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community).

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2019

They’re also advocating for more uniform metrics and industry standards. Large asset management firms and pensions funds are now pressuring corporate leaders to improve sustainability practices in material ways that both benefit their firms’ bottom line and create broader impact.

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Metrics Government Industry Management 132

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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