Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

It can help to assess the business situation in the context of entering a new market, M&A, product development, and starting a new business. How big is the market? How fast is the market growing? What is the concentration of customers in the market relative to the concentration of firms? What is its market share?

Case Interview 60

Case Interview Industry Productivity Interviews 60

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. For every comparison, the clinical quality performance was better in the hospitals with the better patient experience performance. There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses. What is driving what?

Comparison 45

Comparison Financial Report Data 45

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Gallup''s P2P metric estimates the percentage of the U.S. Similar to P2P, unemployment fluctuates seasonally, and the year-over-year change is the most informative comparison. unemployment rate -- the closest comparison it has to the official numbers released by the BLS -- increased in August. in August, from 44.6% Bottom Line.

Comparison 74

Comparison Report Government Methodologies 74

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

Comparison 28

Comparison Research Productivity Policies 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. McKinsey tries to address this issue by doing comparisons within industries.

McKinsey 34

McKinsey Cash Flow Comparison Methodologies 34

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Establishing appropriate performance metrics and assigning attribution.

Healthcare 37

Healthcare Metrics Engineering Financial 37

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. For comparison, the employee sample identified as low performers had an average network size of 20. Second, high-potential individuals in the go-to-market group spent 34% more time with product and engineering groups than the team average.

Leadership 42

Leadership Talent Software Deloitte 42

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. Using a 3-to-1 matching of hospitals with no change as a comparison, we analyzed 1,640 firms in all. Both have advantages. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

Study 28

Study Productivity Efficiency Analysis 28

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2017

In one PayScale survey of 71,000 people, for example, 64% of those paid the average market rate thought they were paid less than average. At the same time, 35% who were paid above market rates also thought they were paid less than average. Evidence suggests you probably aren’t very accurate.

Data 32

Data Sports Metrics Case Interview 32

Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

Its graduates are also known for their excellent quant skills, without which you won’t last a day as a consultant, as well as a firm grasp on international markets. Why is the number of students entering consulting so low at Stanford in comparison with the other schools on our list? Median signing bonus: $25,000.

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Consulting Management Deloitte Bain 100

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Big companies tend to move slower, have processes in place for shipping product, and have already figured out product-market fit, which means you wouldn’t necessarily be building those skills by working there. Smaller companies, predictably, tend to move faster, have less process, and are still working out product-market fit to some degree.

Productivity 60

Productivity How To Recruiting Recruitment 60

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Further research will be required to gain insights into the performance of immigrant leadership talent in comparison with the overall population of business leaders. But given the disadvantage immigrants and ethnic minorities still face in the labor market, we expect ethnic and immigrant leaders to be high performers.

Data 31

Data Healthcare Talent Training 31

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

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. When ranked by the highest ARG compensation, in 2015 average total ARG compensation of the 500 highest paid was $32.6

Exercises 28

Exercises Report Pharmaceuticals Financial 28

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

50% is not a very good recession predicting track record except in comparison to consensus economic opinions that have never once in history predicted a recession. With equity markets galore hitting record high s clearly I must be missing something big! In 2006-2007 I called for a recession. We got a big one. Here are a few snips.

Energy 28

Energy Data Metrics Marketing 28

Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. Today, four out of five S&P 500 companies use a three-year performance period in their long-term incentives.

Cash Flow 28

Cash Flow Management Government Financial 28

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It is the most practical and intuitive resource on the market, in my opinion. A business metric is only unusual if you don't understand the business. Question: Thank you for creating the Case Interview Secrets videos and Look Over My Shoulder ® program. My question is related to note-taking during the interview.

Case Interview 40

Case Interview Interviews Data Exercises 40

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

But traditional metrics might underestimate the impact of digital, leaving companies vulnerable to aggressive competitors or pure-play disruptors. Armed with a hypothesis that the stock market was undervaluing digital, we sought to create the largest known repository of digital data on U.S. market but a 22% digital share of the U.S.

Metrics 28

Metrics Airlines Comparison Methodologies 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. The market now rewards the long-term vision and continual investment in new growth represented by these younger enterprises. Besides exposing existing markets, a TAP mindset uncovers potential opportunities before there’s a market for them.

Management 28

Management Enterprise Metrics Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

Single-screen “snapshots” of operational processes, marketing metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) can be visually elegant and intuitive. Not only does the metric itself require significantly more information to drive action, but it simply doesn’t align with his goals and business model. Probably not.

Data 28

Data Comparison Metrics Software 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

ADP, a leading provider of payroll capabilities, allows customers to use its DataCloud tool to compare themselves to other firms not only how much employees are paid, but also metrics like their average job tenure, attrition rates, how much they invest in retirement accounts, and at what age they retire.

Benchmarking 28

Benchmarking Software B2B Comparison 28

Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

The advent of online reviews has led some to argue that the power of brands and traditional marketing tactics is waning and consumers are making more informed and rational decisions. Here are some of our key findings: The average star rating has surprisingly low correspondence to established quality metrics. versus a 4.1)

Productivity 35

Productivity Comparison Metrics Study 35

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The local toy store seemed positively drab in comparison. Now, those endless aisles pale in comparison with what’s available online, and rock-bottom prices can be found at Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Parents, for their part, were drawn by the “everyday low price.” Rather, they seek to optimize a failing model.

Retail 34

Retail Comparison Industry Training 34

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2017

For the financial metrics, AIRINC maintains their own international salary data base that captures location-specific salary levels for professional talent. The financial metrics are aggregated to calculate the net purchasing power of a typical salary in each city, and then converted to a common currency to allow comparison among cities.

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Metrics Comparison Talent Financial 52