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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change.

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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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Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

Harvard Business

Tomorrow, another three companies — IBM, NRG Energy, and GSK — are presenting their long-term plans. We then scored the quality of disclosure based on whether there is no disclosure, generic disclosure, backward-looking metrics, or forward-looking metrics for a category.

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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

Our Climate Commitment is one way we help solve the unsustainable demand for energy resources and its impact on the environment. Today we align with 11 out of the 17 SDGs, including zero hunger, gender equality, clean water, affordable and clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, and climate action. million gallons of water.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Why Email Is So Stressful, Even Though It’s Not Actually That Time-Consuming

Harvard Business

Here are three important lessons I learned from the process, which may be valuable as you think about how to make the time you spend on email more efficient, as well. Using that metric, only 10.5% But everything that made it directly into my inbox was tallied — 1161 messages over a two-week period.