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Sustainability: The Growing Importance of ESG Metrics

Tom Spencer

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have emerged as critical tools for companies to measure and communicate their sustainability efforts. These metrics are increasingly influencing business decision-making and thus shaping corporate reputation in a way that impacts customer loyalty and financial performance.

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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

For context, in an academic research lab a primary investigator in coordination with a team consisting of technicians, graduate students, and a lab coordinator will write a grant to apply for funding to conduct research. This process usually takes years from generating an idea for a research project to getting the findings published.

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Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics

LSA Global

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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Equity Research: Understanding the Role of Stock Analysts

Tom Spencer

Equity research is a vital function within the investment industry that helps investors make informed decisions about buying, holding, or selling stocks. The researcher also makes recommendations on whether a stock is a “buy,” “hold,” or “sell” based on their analysis.

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A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics

Epicflow

This is where project management metrics come into play – they provide project managers with useful insights as to a project’s “health”. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them? What are project management metrics and why do you need them? What are the most common project management metrics?

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AI Can (Mostly) Outperform Human CEOs

Harvard Business

When researchers at the University of Cambridge pitted human competitors against a leading LLM, the chatbot beat the top participants on almost every metric. It also was fired more quickly.

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It’s Time to Change How ESG Is Measured

Harvard Business

However, research suggests that ESG ratings suffer from a measurement trap that occurs when a metric used as part of the rating is systematically biased towards certain industries or types of companies.

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