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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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6 Proven Tactics to Design an Effective Executive Healthcare Resume

Strategy Driven

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

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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Fixing Salespeople's Biggest Complaint: My Territory is Too Small

Harvard Business Review

A district sales manager says: "These district sales rankings are unfair. Coaching and performance management. If sales managers know account potential, they can coach salespeople on the best strategies for driving revenue growth. A salesperson says: "My quota is 10% higher than last year. Deduce the data. Build the data.

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Don't Confuse a Scorecard with a Scoreboard

Harvard Business Review

Here are some common examples: When pharmaceutical companies announce that a new drug has been "approved," they are actually saying that their researchers made some breakthrough discoveries as far back as fifteen years ago. In other words, metrics are starting points for dialogue rather than conclusions.

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China, South Africa Advance Sustainability Efforts

Harvard Business Review

environmental, social and governance) metrics relevant to long-term sustainable corporate performance. Companies included in the ETF include major airlines, pharmaceuticals, industrials, and technology. After our meeting at the SSE, we had lunch with Dean Xiongwen Lu and Professor Cheng-Hua Tzeng of the Fudan School of Management.