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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

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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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? This will require reporting on new metrics. Finally, begin to track the progress of your network initiative.

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business

We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). Unlike other studies in this vein, we didn’t examine leadership development, per se — we analyzed the impact of different management practices on business performance as a whole. .”

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How Digital Health Care Can Help Prevent Chronic Diseases Like Diabetes

Harvard Business

One of the key metrics that the Omada program tracks is participants’ weight. While the in-person DPPs were largely successful in reducing disease risk and incidence, Duffy and James recognized that there was substantial opportunity to better scale the DPP and make it more accessible and personalized by using technology.

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To Seize the Future, Create a Leadership Circle

Harvard Business

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. Lastly, this group may be more attuned to individual interests (including performance metrics and compensation incentives) rather than the collective and longer-term needs of the firm. paul Garbett for HBR.

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How to Make Sure You’re Not Using Data Just to Justify Decisions You’ve Already Made

Harvard Business

” These answers are typically built around metrics — or key performance indicators (KPIs) — like click-through rates, cost per impression, and gross rating points, which companies all-too-often decide on too late in the process. ” or “Who were our highest-value customers over the last year?”

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