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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

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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The ROI of eLearning: Measuring the Impact of Online Training on Organizational Success

Clarity Consultants

They can focus the coursework on critical skill areas, allowing them to close knowledge gaps quickly and efficiently. During this stage, eLearning consultants identify critical success metrics related to workforce performance. With that approach, eLearning programs become far more efficient.

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Virgin Atlantic Tested 3 Ways to Change Employee Behavior

Harvard Business

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. The result of frontier analysis is an index for each firm describing its efficiency at transforming inputs into outputs relative to the best performers operating at comparable scale.

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How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience

Harvard Business

The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. Two years later, the follow-up IOM report, “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” reviewed other types of disappointing quality, including gaps in efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness, and patient-centeredness.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business

The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality.

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CEOs Should Think Like Founders, Not Just Managers

Harvard Business

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. A TAP view, by comparison — asking “Who has problems that a mobile phone could address?”