Finance Insurance Metrics Productivity 
Tom Spencer
MAY 18, 2019
Well, asset managers aim to understand client investment objectives and invest client funds in a variety of financial products and asset classes. Retail asset managers will offer a variety of products including mutual funds, index funds and specialized pools. What does this mean exactly? Asset Management Business Model.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2018
To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.
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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. For example, a doctor may prescribe medicine, paid for by an insurance company, and used by the patient. What products and services do they offer? Customer Segmentation.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Good statistics on immigrant entrepreneurship are exceptionally difficult to assemble, and therefore it’s challenging to create productive policies. states, with more being added as their unemployment insurance (UI) filings data become available. We have merged in data on the firms backed by VC financing.
Harvard Business
MAY 1, 2018
If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2017
Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.
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