Coming Up Short on Nonfinancial Performance Measurement
Among these mistakes: They set the wrong performance targets because they focus too much on short-term financial results, and they use metrics that lack strong statistical validity and reliability.
The True Measures of Success - Harvard Business Review
Michael J. Mauboussin is director of research at BlueMountain Capital Management and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School in New York City. His latest book is The …
Financial performance measurement - HBR
Oct 10, 2024 · Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous …
Financial performance measurement - HBR - Harvard Business …
Apr 26, 2012 · Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous …
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this …
The Best Way to Measure Company Performance - Harvard …
Mar 4, 2010 · Most Wall Street analysts and investors tend to focus on return on equity as their primary measure of company performance. Many executives focus heavily on this metric as …
Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business - Harvard Business …
Tying performance metrics to strategy has become an accepted best practice over the past few decades. Strategy is abstract by definition, but metrics give strategy form, allowing our minds …
A Better Way to Assess Managerial Performance - Harvard …
Total shareholder return (TSR) has become the definitive metric for gauging performance. Unlike accounting measures such as revenue growth or earnings per share that reflect the past, TSR …
How Brand Building and Performance Marketing Can Work Together
To achieve performance- accountable brand building and brand-accountable performance marketing, firms must create metrics that measure the effects of both types of investments on …
The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
The traditional financial performance measures worked well for the industrial era, but they are out of step with the skills and competencies companies are trying to master today.