Sentences with phrase «well by any metric»

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Provincial instructors focused on two main areas: document use, aimed at helping workers better understand specialized blueprints, and numeracy, aimed at reducing the measurement errors caused by metric - trained employees working in an imperial - measurement environment.

They suggested weighting companies in an index by metrics that tell you more about how good the business is rather than just how big it is.

By that metric, and every other, Port Equipment has done phenomenally well: In five years it's grown from five employees to 50 who are spread out among the six intermodal yards the company now maintains for Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC).

By the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and poweBy the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and poweby a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and power.

For example you could say, «Our competitor with similar metrics recently got financed at a $ 20 million pre-money valuation, here is why I think we're better...» Setting terms to the investor by saying something like, «I won't take less than this valuation» is the surest way to turn off a potential investor.

The department store chain said on Tuesday that comparable sales rose 1.3 % in the holiday quarter that ended on Feb. 1, their first quarterly increase by that metric since the end of 2014 and well above analysts» forecasts.

By effectively increasing these metrics, you can better develop each section of your sales funnel.

According to a new Bankrate survey out Monday, the Grand Canyon state is home to three of the country's best cities for retirees, ranked by metrics like cost of living, weather, crime rate, health care, taxes, walkability and the well - being of seniors living in the area.

For 2013, Ares reports $ 306 million in net economic income, a metric favored by publicly - traded private equity firms that don't believe GAAP accounting best explains their financial performance.

To stay focused on ROI and have a better understanding of how your content can affect your overlying business goals, start by selecting and measuring two to three metrics before scaling further.

Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on «validated learning,» rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want.

It seems to me profit is a much better metric for measuring success but companies are always listed in the media by their revenue.

So we came out with two crude metrics for good and cheap and you know Ben Graham said by cheap Warren Buffett said if you could buy a good business cheap, even better, we combine those two, and we used a crude database.

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

Valuations on Wall Street may be stretched by a number of metrics, but that's not stopping the market's youngest investors from thinking that now is a good time to jump in.

The response plan should definitely include the following: manage the cybersecurity incident in order to limit damages, make sure you collaborate well with the rest of your company and with other organizations, create metrics for measuring the incident response efficiency, prevent more by minimizing human errors, create incident response protocols that will improve your team's effectiveness.

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

The model examined common metrics such as user growth and engagement, as well as more bespoke things like «quality of revenue» by putting more weight on money from loyal customers.

«We were encouraged by continued strong volume growth and user metrics and believe the magnitude of the EPS beat and raise was likely in line to slightly better than expected.

If the restaurant chain holds that pace through the fourth quarter, it will post its best result by that metric since 2011.

We're encouraged by the fact the list of possible metrics includes ROIC, but we'd like to see more transparency from GOOGL so that investors can better understand executive incentives.

We found the idea for the quality metric in an academic paper by Robert Novy - Marx called The Other Side of Value: Good Growth and the Gross Profitability Premium.

Shares of Workday Inc (NASDAQ: WDAY) were trading lower by more than 2 percent Thursday after the company's better - than - expected earnings report was overshadowed by several concerning metrics.

I'll bet it was a government economist trying to establish a metric by which to judge the level of failure involved with one's decisions for the good of the people.

He says it's simple business savvy and indeed, by that metric, Liberty is doing extraordinarily well.

But this transition should not be burdensome; by establishing production metrics for monitoring waste, as well as electricity consumption, gas consumption, waste water intensity and overall carbon emissions, your sites can identify ongoing efficiencies and potential cost savings for your company to support your bottom line.

By this park - and era - adjusted metric, Trout was better than every inner - circle Hall of Famer below him.

Then, when those same outcomes stick out like a sore thumb to bench one guy, he chooses somebody else with good (by the team's standards this series) outcome - based metrics.

Not sure why the masses are so befuddled by this performance, the squad is bang average @ best and by no available metric a top 4 team.

What the metrics say: These are two of the 10 best defenses in Havoc Rate, defined as a team's total tackles for loss, passes defensed, and forced fumbles divided by total plays.

im just saying Mcgreogrs striking is wayy too advanced to not find khabibs chin several times, over lets say 7 minutes, and its like a REALLY good posibilty connor lasts at least that, by any metric, his durability and khabibs (lack of) early finishes at top level leads me to belive way too many chances for mcgregor to fold him, i actually think thats easy money but well see.

Raw numbers Sixers score 107.4 ppg which is 9th in the league, vs opponents ppg of 105.7 which is 15th so by those metrics our offense is better than our D. And the D numbers have improved in calendar year 2018.

From the offensive examination the better metrics are is in the column of Miami Florida by.3.

From the offensive examination the better metrics are is in the column of Green Bay by.4.

My understanding is, Messi is in his own league, and not all goals and chances are equal, if they were, Lacazette will be considered as good as Messi by this metric.

From the offensive examination, the better metrics are in the column of New York by 2.0.

Laszlo Bock, the head of hiring for Google, has stated that, after all the years of looking for the «best and the brightest,» of recruiting from the Ivies and our most selective universities, that all that attention to accomplishment as measured by metrics, has proven «worthless.»

You could offset this by working in many different types of derivatives, but now your operational expenses balloon as well as your risk metrics.

By the late 20th century, astronomers had a much better grip on this fundamental cosmic metric — what came to be called the astronomical unit.

American Electric Power will begin capturing at best just over 3 percent of the 8.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted by its 1,300 - MW Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia later this year and injecting the CO2 more than three kilometers underground.

The ultimate conclusion of the study is that the Canadian medical system is as good as the U.S. version, at least when measured by a single metric — the rate at which patients in either system died.

METRICS will work with other researchers to identify and encourage the best research practices, ensuring that well - established statistical principles and other methods, endorsed by all researchers but too often ignored in practice, are widely adopted.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Beside numbers and metrics, the scientific output of Ospedale San Raffaele is best described by its impact on clinical practice.

This includes raw data and metadata for projects, experiments, and samples submitted by investigators, as well as derived analyses and quality metrics automatically generated from running vetted secondary analysis pipelines.

This metric was examined to identify global and regional patterns in fire weather season length changes as well as changes in the frequency of, and the area affected by, long fire weather seasons (defined as > 1.0 σ above historical mean) over the last 35 years.

Importantly, we found a high degree of overlap between these two metrics of differentiation (102 overlapping regions)(Table S3) and most differentiated regions were well demarcated (i.e. appearing as single peaks surrounded by background levels of much lower differentiation; Figure 2).

Wet bulb globe temperature is the heat stress metric used by the International Organization for Standardization, and it has well - validated thresholds for when humans can safely work, giving it advantages over alternative metrics such as heat index, said study co-author Chao Li, a hydroclimatology scientist at the University of Victoria in Canada.

More specifically, the average annual per - capita emissions will have to shrink to well under 1 metric ton CO2 by 2050.

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