BCG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Article Thursday, September 08, 2016. Yet, for decades, most of the research on family businesses has focused on benchmarks from developed markets. To understand how this context should influence decision making, The Boston Consulting Group conducted extensive research on family businesses in both developed and emerging markets.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

companies are facing pressure to meet earnings expectations, and research indicates that meeting analyst forecasts is a more important benchmark than meeting the prior year’s earnings or avoiding losses. We identified three factors that characterized the companies that beat earnings benchmarks. per $100 of payroll.

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BCG

MAY 9, 2016

That mandate for digital simplicity is the central insight emerging from the research behind this sixth edition of BCG’s annual Global Retail Banking report. This article—one of three publications composing the full report—includes an overview of the industry’s financial performance. trillion, with wide disparities among regions.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Companies are experiencing a severe shortage of qualified employees, with research pointing to 14,000 current openings. Benchmarking: When projects require extensive back-office or benchmarking figures, it may make sense to rely on a more traditional consulting firm. Travel costs matter less than capabilities. .

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Consulting Management How To Benchmarking 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

So my team of research assistants and I identified a collection of low-wage jobs in Washington, D.C. But the comparison at least provides a benchmark. In a forthcoming study , I tested how employers respond to similar applicants who report different residential addresses. during the summer of 2014.

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 17, 2018

slide by the S&P 500 was the benchmark index’s steepest monthly fall since September 2011. Since seeing this video, I’ve done more research online that backs up what he’s saying (not 100%, of course). Why am I writing this article? Smart people research. And he backs it up by some pretty convincing information.

Marketing 48

Marketing Banking Video Research 48

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2016

It’s something my coauthors and I explore in a forthcoming research paper, and our conclusion goes against the prevailing wisdom. At the same time, clients withdrew $207 billion overall from actively managed funds, according to the research firm Morningstar. ” My fellow researchers and I set out to test that claim.

Government 28

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

At the end of each day, we tested the workers’ decision-making performance using a standardized cognitive function test that researchers have used for decades. This research adds empirical evidence to a long-recognized phenomenon. schools (1400 ppm). We held everything else constant. In most cities, it’s even lower.

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Productivity Research Chemicals Energy 34

Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2017

Research suggests that employees are often in a position to discover and expose wrongdoing in organizations. For example, look at Sherron Watkins, formerly of Enron, and Cynthia Cooper, formerly of WorldCom. Both women helped uncover massive frauds inside their organizations that ultimately cost investors billions of dollars.

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Research Financial Exercises Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

We propose an answer to that question in our new research paper. Our research reveals that common ownership has had a significant impact on the structure of executive compensation. Why, then, do company boards and shareholders of most firms approve those packages? It’s not just the incentive package.

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Research Industry Benchmarking Airlines 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

However, research shows that much of the advice extolled may be misleading or even wrong. Several myths about performance persist, despite research and practices that show they are half-truths at best. Myth 2: We get better by benchmarking ourselves against others. It doesn’t come from mimicry.

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Benchmarking Comparison Research Sports 36

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

By 2012, our research shows, nearly 60% of a typical B2B purchasing decision — researching solutions, ranking options, benchmarking pricing, and so on — was happening before the buyer even had a conversation with a supplier. Consider the revolving door of experts, colleagues, vendors, and their specialists.

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B2B Travel Benchmarking Sales 30

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

As researchers work with the data, new insights about their data and platform design choices may surface. Drawing on our academic research assessing repurposed data sources, as well as our work with organizations, we see that simple guiding principles can help companies understand how to successfully repurpose their data.

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Data Company Benchmarking Real Estate 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

McKinsey research shows that only 8% of reorgs create value and deliver expected results within the expected amount of time. By completing it, you will be able to benchmark your company’s reorg against a number of best practices, identified in our book, ReOrg: How to Get it Right.

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Benchmarking Automotive Survey McKinsey 36

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

For this reason, organizational transformation is uniquely suited to the analysis, prediction, and experimental research approach of the people analytics field. When they brought that data-driven story to the front lines, suddenly a platitude was transformed into a useful benchmark that got the attention of managers.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

s Bill Gross, manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, said investors should buy short-term Treasuries and credit securities that will be bolstered by the Fed’s intent to keep benchmark lending rates at almost zero. billion in net redemptions in August, Chicago-based researcher Morningstar Inc. Pacific Investment Management Co.’s

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Benchmarking Banking Insurance Insurance 69

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. Early on, he wrote many articles about his real passion of “taking the measure” on business problems. The focus of this article is on Booz & Company because of its focus on strategy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But what if there were a way to make breakthrough progress by applying research-based tools and strategies to boost these numbers faster? They were four years older, when compared with benchmark data, before becoming CEO and brought more-diverse functional and industry experience to the position.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

After researching over 100 early stage ventures, we began to understand why startups hit a cultural chasm and how to navigate it. In addition to examining surveys of employee happiness, our research included the annual revenue growth rate of companies. Two distinct sets emerged. The silver lining is that transparency is virtually free.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The EPI numbers are bleak for many of these groups, clearly, but in this article I’m most concerned with black men and women.). Recent articles have highlighted the migration of African-Americans to “New South” cities , where job opportunities are perceived to be better.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The Center for Orthopedic Research and Education (or CORE Institute ) — a group of musculoskeletal, neurologic, and rehabilitative physicians in Arizona and Michigan that includes orthopedic, spine, and pain-management physicians and a number of other types of clinicians — is pioneering an approach that represents a middle ground.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

Researchers have found that “the sense of isolation” for some online learners “may make the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful online learning environment.” Set a golden benchmark. Of course, that benchmark will change as you develop. But there’s also a downside.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Our research shows that digital transformation is paying off for those who embrace it: Digitally transformed organizations (“digital leaders”) performed much better than organizations that lagged behind (“digital laggards”), effectively creating a “digital divide” across companies. for leaders and 3.2%

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

The UK Treasury’s 200-page April 2016 report, blandly titled “The Long-Term Economic Impact of EU Membership and the Alternatives,“ seems a useful, well-executed benchmark. The respected Center for Economic Policy Research suggests that may be a significant understatement.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

Young Millennials, driven to distraction and depression by nonstop, constantly comparative online benchmarking, can’t unglue from phones-as-performance-measuring-devices. Extreme foodies start the day with complex green drinks made from the latest expensive seeds and vegan plants from a distant country. Who can blame them?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

According to Gallup’s oft-cited research on the topic , just about one-third of U.S. But based on our research with several large companies, we want to offer a word of caution: Engagement is often an ambiguous term. The holy grail of today’s workplace is high employee engagement. employees are engaged on the job.

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Productivity Metrics Culture Data 48

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

While the execution of a conventional strategy lends itself to linear progress and clear benchmarks, innovation often proceeds by S-curves , moving at a slow crawl until it explodes at an exponential rate. IBM research , for example, has consistently made breakthroughs in a number of fields long before their commercial value became clear.

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MishTalk

MARCH 24, 2014

The entire article is well worth a read. And more recently, we’ve moved to seven years, because we’ve found in our research that financial series tend to mean revert a little bit faster than 10 years–actually about six-and-a-half years. We produced pretty good numbers, but they’re way behind the benchmark. Grantham : No.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

Our research on leadership development shows that leaders who are in learning mode develop stronger leadership skills than their peers. Organizational leaders can help rising leaders focus more on being progressively better than they were in the past, rather than on constantly benchmarking themselves against others.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2014

For many bright young researchers in the universities, their commitment to develop new low carbon energy supplies is a further source of optimism about technical progress, and their motivation is exogenous to price. Ninety minutes later, Russia’s central bank raised its benchmark to bolster a currency weakened by crude’s decline.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

For instance, research has found that women tend to gravitate toward collaborative efforts that require a greater time investment, whereas men prefer solo decision making and directive action. Research has found that the feedback women do get tends to be about their personalities, not about business outcomes.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

“Our research shows that brand affinity scores for Ben & Jerry’s are twice as high for people who are aware of our social efforts,” says Rob Michalak, global director of social mission at Ben & Jerry’s. ” Benchmarking and Operational Cost Savings.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

Over the past year, we carried out an online survey of 2,500 reorgs (you can still complete the survey and benchmark your reorg here ). Yet earlier research we conducted for our book suggests that setting quantitative targets is essential for driving success. What ensures that M&A-driven reorganizations are successful?

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How To Accenture Benchmarking Survey 31

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Our research for the book The Power of People showed that HR professionals can be broadly categorized into one of three groups with respect to their current analytical capability: Analytically Savvy — These are HR professionals who are formally trained in analytics techniques and are adept at working with data and interpreting analyses.

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Data Development How To Culture 34

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do. Improving customer experience is often a top business priority, but what about employee experience?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

And research shows that once women and people of color join tech companies, retention rates are much lower than that of white men, often due to bad treatment in the workplace. companies are failing to hire black, Latinx, and women Computer Science graduates. Women leave tech companies twice as fast as men do.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S. manufacturing multinationals and the small and midsize firms that make up most of the sector’s establishments and employment.

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