Sentences with phrase «firm performance as»

90 % of insurance executives identified measuring law firm performance as their most important initiative over the next 12 months.

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He specializes in the issues that fast - growth firms experience in their business models, processes, and systems as they reach higher levels of performance.

Professional services firm Deloitte has posted a 15 per cent increase in revenue for the 12 months to May, as strong performance in its east coast operations offset challenging conditions in Western Australia.

Employees at participating firms are surveyed on engagement (whether they feel motivated at work), performance culture (whether success is rewarded), leadership (whether executives treat their team as valued assets) and employment brand (whether they are proud to work at the company).

With today's employees, as with mutual funds, «past performance is not the best indicator of future success,» says Rajeev Vasudeva, CEO of the Egon Zehnder executive recruiting firm.

The critique doesn't only come from the left; there are plenty of hard - nosed investment firms that are agitating to clamp a lid on ever - growing CEO pay, arguing that it's a poor use of shareholders» money and distorts performance as CEOs start managing to their pay metrics instead of longer - term growth.

As a result, they could effect deviant strategies that either vaulted their firms well above the sector averages for performance or well below.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds to investors, as the regulator boosts its scrutiny of the industry, according to people familiar with the matter.

But data from research firm Morningstar show that whatever the reasons may be — lower costs, tax efficiency, better performance — passive investments continue to gain new money as traditional actively managed mutual funds watch money leave their coffers.

This made U.S. firms the biggest single national group and was similar to levels in 2016, according to CDP, which tracks companies» environmental performance and was formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project.

Volumes of research from global consulting firms coupled with my own experiences as a business owner and consultant point to the fundamental belief that there is a distinct correlation between culture and financial performance.

As an example: At my marketing firm, we create visibility and credibility for our clients using a pay - for - performance model that guarantees media exposure and sets us apart from our peers.

Its rankings are based heavily on a company's long - term financial results and — for the first time this year — take into account its environmental, social, and governance performance as measured by investment research firm Sustainalytics.

The compensation committee deemed Gorman «as exceeding expectations» and found the firm's performance and shareholder returns were «strong, with room for continued progress,» according to the filing.

For example, the Compensation Committee retained Compensia, Inc., a national compensation consulting firm («Compensia»), as its compensation consultant in 2017 to advise the Compensation Committee with respect to the 2018 CEO Performance Award.

Services beyond financial advisory, tax planning, and investment management include: bookkeeping, alternative investment advisor selection, investment performance monitoring across multiple firms, portfolio accounting, financial reporting, philanthropy management, concierge services, as well as data and document management.

Analysts had earlier flagged KKR and Ares as the two private equity firms most likely to convert to C - Corps as the tax hit is less severe because the firms» earnings rely less on the performance fees that are affected by the C - Corp change.

Specifically, it will examine how startups nationwide performed — especially compared to mature small firms — by assessing their performance and expectations, the credit they sought and received, and the lenders they applied to as well as their success and satisfaction with them.

Gorman missed out on performance stock units granted as part of his 2009 pay after the firm missed the targets attached to those awards in the three years ended in 2012.

Some businesses reporting more - favourable terms linked this development to greater competition among banks, while others pointed to firm - specific factors such as their own stronger performance.

This dilution is an issue in publicly traded stock market firms, but it has been historically addressed by keeping the size of the ESOP modest compared to the rest of shareholders (most ESOPs in stock market companies are under 20 %) and by establishing a corporate culture where employee stock ownership is likely to increase the performance of the firm so as to offset the modest dilution of profits per share of non-employee shareholders.

Smart Selling Tools, Inc., is an analyst and consulting firm that specializes in sales productivity and sales performance solutions sometimes referred to as RevTech.

Locally, Arch MI found solid performance among regional businesses and limited development of new homes as factors that should keep home prices firm.

As a supplement to our 16 - page stock reports, our dividend reports assess the safety of a stock's dividend through our Valuentum Dividend Cushion ™ ratio, the potential growth of a firm's dividend by evaluating its capacity and willingness to increase the dividend, the historical track record of the company's dividend performance, and the overall strength of the dividend by putting all of this analysis together.

Accolade Wines, the second largest wine company in Australia, has a lot of work do to improve the performance of its recently - acquired Grant Burge Wines, which plunged to a loss of almost $ 10 million in its final year as a stand - alone firm.

Michael Smith The performance of Treasury Wine Estates over the past year has had more than a few shareholders reaching for the bottle so it should not be a huge surprise that an opportunistic private equity firm has as come knocking.

US manufacturer Kraft Foods has announced a «fewer, bigger, better» policy, concentrating on crucial brands in key areas as the firm suffers from lagging performance.

saying that the keynesian conception is about spending what you earn is the opposite of what it stands for (its actually what you haplessly describe as the neoclassical position) beyond the even more meaningless claim that wenger adheres to it... keynes broke with the idea that the economy was simply a collection of perfectly informed individuals and firms responding rationally to price incentives generated by market forces and that the big variables that frame an economies performance — output, employment, price level, wages, etc — tend to move in cycles and are shaped by decisions and judgements made under hugely uncertain conditions that if left to markets generate bad outcomes..

Priced in the mid-range of firm mattress options, this mattress is a great choice for a good night of sleep, as it is highly praised for its support and consistent performance.

As the Speaker of this House I am of a firm conviction that constitutional bodies must respect each other in the performance of their duties in order to avoid role conflicts,» Mr. Adjaho added.

The study also found that when a company's performance grows, incentive pay does not work as well as when a firm's performance declines.

The study looked at roughly 160,000 examples of firm performance in the U.S., using data from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Patent Data Project, as well as Standard & Poor's Compustat database of financial information for companies.

Firms such as Porsche that focus on high performance tend to fall short.

Jessica Chastain gives a magnificent and thoroughly believable performance as a ruthless woman who will do anything to win in the amoral world she works in and the political «rats» whom the competing lobbying firms work to win over.

There is compensation in a few sensational supporting performances: Michelle Williams is hilarious as Avery LeClair, the cosmetics CEO and granddaughter of the firm's founder Lily (Lauren Hutton).

Fortunately, Chandor has a stellar ensemble cast of actors at his disposal, most of whom are at the top of their game here — particularly Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons as the steely head of the firm, and Paul Bettany in a dynamic performance that makes you wonder why he's been wasting his time making genre films for the past few years.

We shouldn't go much further without commenting on the endlessly watchable performance James McAvoy gives, his grasp on each of the personalities we see Kevin go through as firm as the director's grip on the atmosphere.

While Ben Affleck (Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Pearl Harbor) does an adequate job as the corruptible attorney, it's really Jackson (Formula 51, Unbreakable) and a very good supporting cast that gives the film a solid acting foundation to be almost believable, with especially good performances by Sydney Pollack (Random Hearts) as the experienced, seasoned partner in the firm and Kim Staunton (Holy Man) as Jackson's wife.

As Clayton Christensen has observed, clusters may be particularly important in more nascent fields — like blended learning — in which the ecosystem is still immature, performance has yet to overshoot its users» performance demands, and how the different parts of the ecosystem fit together are still not well understood, and thus the ecosystem is highly interdependent, even as proprietary, vertically integrated firms do not — or in the case of education, often can not — stretch across the entire value networAs Clayton Christensen has observed, clusters may be particularly important in more nascent fields — like blended learning — in which the ecosystem is still immature, performance has yet to overshoot its users» performance demands, and how the different parts of the ecosystem fit together are still not well understood, and thus the ecosystem is highly interdependent, even as proprietary, vertically integrated firms do not — or in the case of education, often can not — stretch across the entire value networas proprietary, vertically integrated firms do not — or in the case of education, often can not — stretch across the entire value network.

Peterson says that Rhee was in office for too short a period to draw firm conclusions one way or another as to her impact on student performance, but there is no doubt that the reports critical of her tenure have made erroneous claims.

As well as trying to minimise costs for parents, teachers often choose the same coach firms and accommodation the school has always used out of sense of familiarity, but previous use has proven to be no guarantee of future performancAs well as trying to minimise costs for parents, teachers often choose the same coach firms and accommodation the school has always used out of sense of familiarity, but previous use has proven to be no guarantee of future performancas trying to minimise costs for parents, teachers often choose the same coach firms and accommodation the school has always used out of sense of familiarity, but previous use has proven to be no guarantee of future performance.

She spent the past year working as an Associate Consultant for the nonprofit consulting firm AchieveMission, where she supported talent development and performance management at several national charter school networks and education focused organizations.

The district hired firm Milone & MacBroom of Cheshire to analyze data such as enrollment projections, building capacity and conditions, and school performance.

The British supercar firm will also go into detail on its performance in the all - important Chinese market at the Shanghai show - a market that firms such as Ferrari and Lamborghini are already putting heavy emphasis on.

As the firm's head of R&D, Maurizio Reggiani, points out, Lamborghini gets to cherry - pick what it wants from the VW Group inventory, and to achieve its aims — best performance of all; within the top group for comfort and off - road ability, apparently — it has thrown everything it can at the Urus.

SEAT has confirmed that Cupra is set to go it alone as the Spanish firm's performance sub-brand.

As befits a luxury - performance car, the TSX wagon offers a firm but not jarring ride; it's taut but compliant when you hit a pothole.

The Mégane 265 was certainly one of the firmer cars on that route, and much as I loved its single - minded attitude in placing precision and performance over plushness, I did wonder how many people would be forced to choose a Golf GTI instead, purely to hush the complaints of passengers.

Despite the quiet engine there's never any doubt that the 245 is one of Skoda's performance models as the ride is firm.

2016, 2016, At the 500 Sport level, you don't get all the extras of the Lounge trim, but you do get a long list of performance - related upgrades, such as a stiffer sport - tuned suspension, a sport exhaust, firmer steering calibration, red - painted brake calipers, fog lamps, additional cladding and aerodynamic bodywork, plus sport - styled seating and a sport steering wheel.