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Moving on from ROI to ROE, a Return on Empathy

Strategy Driven

Those making this shift will gain a significant ROE – Return on Empathy. When companies maintain trust and cultivate positive relationships with customers they are rewarded with loyalty. When we’re forgiven, we’re more likely to reciprocate positively toward those who absolved us. Investing in Empathy. All rights reserved.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause.

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Not All Metrics Are Created Equal

N2Growth Blog

Moreover, depending on how a business is positioned, where it is in its maturation lifecycle, or what its current financial condition looks like, will dictate which factors may be most important to measure. Complicating matters further is the reality that each industry, sector, vertical, and micro-vertical all have unique business drivers.

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Life In A High-Performing Company – An Insider View

Tanveer Naseer

Indeed, these organizations roughly double industry averages on five-year ROA, ROI and ROE. However, they are considerably more positive regarding the work-life balance support these companies provide (64 percent, +7). From a total rewards standpoint, high performing companies offer their employees a lot. The Good News 1.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

What is Return on Equity (ROE)? Unlike ROA, you want the ROE to be as high as possible, but there are limitations. Knight explains that “one company may have a higher ROE than another company because it borrowed more money and therefore has greater liabilities and proportionately less equity invested in the company.

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Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

The more positive public perception of activists in Japan marks a dramatic change. given that Japanese companies are global outliers in terms of excess cash, low ROEs , and limited domestic growth prospects ). More important, companies are increasingly tuned into the Corporate Governance Code.

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Women Directors Change How Boards Work

Harvard Business Review

And while research about financial performance is still in its infancy — Catalyst has found a strong correlation between the number of women on boards and in the C-Suite and ROI and ROE of company returns — we’re starting to learn more about the important ways women are changing the inner workings of boards.

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