Sentences with phrase «performance by measuring»

Kindergarten Readiness: Advancing student performance by measuring and supporting a child's progress through individual school readiness plans.

* Testing data enables fair assessments of teacher performance by measuring skills of a teacher's class before the school year begins.

Created to celebrate exemplars of building performance by measuring rigorously collected data, the Awards show how good engineering can directly affect the amount of energy used in a building and reduction of emissions while taking into account the occupants» experiences at the same time.

This is extraordinary performance by any measure.

During that era venture capital generated strong, above - market returns, and performance by any measure was good.

Not exact matches

The Company considers EBITDA to be an important measure used to evaluate operating performance, and the measure is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in the industry, but this figure should not be considered in isolation.

They shouldn't be seen as a guaranteed payment, but instead should be measured by performance of the individual, team or company.

The Swedish company, which began trading in an unorthodox direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange in April, reported steady growth by most financial measures but failed to deliver the commanding performance that could...

The following measures are used by the Company's management to evaluate financial performance against historical results and establish targets on a consolidated basis.

There are dozens of different ways to measure website performance by tracking metrics.

In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

Management believes analysts and investors use Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure to evaluate overall operating performance and facilitate comparisons with other wireless communications companies because it is indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and trends by excluding the impact of interest expense from financing, non-cash depreciation and amortization from capital investments, non-cash stock - based compensation, network decommissioning costs as they are not indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and certain other nonrecurring income and expenses.

Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure utilized by T - Mobile's management to monitor the financial performance of our operations.

Increased supervision of insurance companies and other tightening measures by Chinese authorities have contributed to the Shanghai stocks» muted performance this year.

By establishing a standard for measuring such efforts, B Corporations are a step in that direction — giving social entrepreneurs a place in the legal infrastructure of the corporate system and investors a framework for assessing their performance.

The company considers same - property NOI as an important operating performance measure because it is frequently used by securities analysts and investors to measure only the net operating income of properties that have been owned by the company for the entire current and prior year reporting periods.

FFO as Adjusted: A supplemental non-GAAP measure that the company believes is more reflective of its core operating performance and provides investors and analysts an additional measure to compare the company's performance across reporting periods on a consistent basis by excluding items that we do not believe are indicative of our core operating performance.

The company considers NAREIT FFO an important supplemental measure of our operating performance and believes it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present NAREIT FFO when reporting results.

«We found that increasing the size of lunch tables... significantly improved performance by over 10 percent, as measured by peer reviews,» writes Humanyze CEO Ben Waber on re: Work.

Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating performance and a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.

By publishing the non-GAAP measures, management intends to provide investors with additional information to further analyze the Company's performance, core results and underlying trends.

Fitza attempted to measure CEO influence on company performance by comparing the CEO effect of actual CEOs to the CEO effect of chance performance.

Implications from deeper understanding of your customers typically involve changes in how you measure sales effectiveness, performance reviews, incentives, product mix, channels and sometimes «addition by subtraction,» or the process of improving performance by not selling to certain types of customers.

The Company believes that discussion of these additional non-GAAP measures provides investors with meaningful comparisons of current results to prior periods» results by excluding items that the Company does not believe reflect its fundamental business performance.

In addition, it should be noted that these non-GAAP financial measures may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies, and management may utilize other measures to illustrate performance in the future.

Adjusted EBITDA is used by management to measure operating performance of the business, excluding these non-cash and other specifically identified items that management believes are not relevant to management's assessment of operating performance or the performance of an acquired business.

EBITDA is defined as earnings (net income or loss) before interest expense, net, (gain) loss on early extinguishment of debt, income tax (benefit) expense, and depreciation and amortization and is used by management to measure operating performance of the business.

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.

There are important lessons in these changes for those of us who are focused on and measured by our performance and by the results we achieve.

With some statistics we can measure a player's performance, season by season, and determine whether they out - or underperform their peers.

The report, co-produced by independent nonprofit JUST Capital Foundation and Forbes, measured the performance of more than 890 publicly - traded companies on the Russell 1000 Index across 32 industries.

These non-GAAP financial measures are used by management for evaluating financial performance as well as decision - making.

Improve business outcomes by learning to effectively measure and interpret performance data.

The MSCI ACWI Select Gold Miners Investable Market Index measures the performance of Basic Materials securities and is selected by a Market Cap process.

Over a 12 - month period (ended June 30, 2017), global hedge funds, as measured by the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, delivered decent gains of 6.0 % in US dollar terms.1 That's a vast improvement in the performance of these alternative investments from the prior two years.

Either way, new Fed Chair Jerome Powell's measured and steady performance before Congress and the media reassured investors, settling the markets somewhat against a backdrop of supportive fundamentals, led by globally synchronized growth, massive new fiscal stimulus and robust corporate earnings.

It represents the difference between a fund's actual returns and its expected performance, given its level of risk as measured by beta (see definition of Beta).

The WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Index measures the performance of Total Market securities and is selected by a Fundamental process.

We have included adjusted EBITDA in this prospectus because it is a key measure used by our management and board of directors to understand and evaluate our core operating performance and trends, to prepare and approve our annual budget and to develop short - and long - term operational plans.

§ The Bloomberg Barclays Capital U.S. TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) Index measures the performance of fixed income securities with fixed - rate coupon payments that adjust for inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.

This same mix of performance - based and time - based awards has been granted by the Committee for the past several years and reflects HP's primary emphasis on performance driven compensation, with the time - based awards providing a measure of retention value, which is also an important component of the overall executive compensation arrangement.

The S&P Financial Select Sector Index measures the performance of Financials securities and is selected by a Committee process.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index measures the performance of Investment Grade securities and is selected by a Market Value process.

The proposed 2015 Stock Incentive Plan would amend, restate and rename the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan and would include additional criteria by which performance - based awards of cash or stock may be measured, and would otherwise amend the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan as described below.

The HRC chose RORCE as the performance measure because it represents a profitability goal that can be accurately compared to the Financial Performance Peer Group, and it is one of the performance measures approved by stockholders in the LTICP (thereby providing tax deductibility under Section 16performance measure because it represents a profitability goal that can be accurately compared to the Financial Performance Peer Group, and it is one of the performance measures approved by stockholders in the LTICP (thereby providing tax deductibility under Section 16Performance Peer Group, and it is one of the performance measures approved by stockholders in the LTICP (thereby providing tax deductibility under Section 16performance measures approved by stockholders in the LTICP (thereby providing tax deductibility under Section 162 (m)-RRB-.

The annualized percentage difference between a fund's actual returns and its expected performance given its level of market risk, as measured by beta.

Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to assist in comparing the Company's performance on a consistent basis for purposes of business decision making by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect the Company's core operations.

At many big companies, those interests are deemed to be best aligned by linking executive performance to earnings per share, along with measures derived from the company's stock price.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury STRIPS 20 - 30 Year Equal Par Bond Index measures the performance of Treasury securities and is selected by a Market Value process.

U.S. REITs represented by the FTSE NAREIT Equity REITs Index, measuring the stock performance of companies engaged in the ownership and development of the real estate markets.