Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

opened in 1959 and is still operating. Charles D''Agostino, executive director of the Louisiana Business & Technology Center at Louisiana State University, offers some analysis: "Incubators do work, but they must be more than a real estate entity offering executive suite services. Most of them fail.

Real Estate 21

Real Estate Metrics Benchmarking Operations 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives.

Inclusion 19

Inclusion Real Estate Marketing Diversity 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Revenue Metrics Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

OpenTable (a restaurant reservations service), Motivate (the operator of CitiBike, Bay Area Bikeshare, and others), and Luxe (a web-based valet parking service) are examples. Solutions should trend toward entertainment, education, and social networking, and they can be location specific. Segment 2: Emerging Economy, Legacy City.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Cash Flow B2B ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business. Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Operations Benchmarking Accounts 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Real Estate Assets Nonprofit 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings. At Microsoft, we went about answering this question in a couple of ways.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Travel Metrics Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. In other words, they are able to make a real difference. Some have decades of experience in their industry. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Leadership Development Scaling Energy 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain. Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers.

Energy 17

Energy Real Estate Government Marketing 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

government, though adoption varies by department, the Office of Personnel Management reports that remote work has increased job satisfaction, reduced employee turnover, and cut costs on several fronts, including real estate, utilities, and travel subsidies. In the U.S. Elsewhere, though, it’s been a different story.

Travel 15

Travel Real Estate Deliverables Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

When we started to look at new locations for our call center operations, we initially considered outsourcing to India or the Philippines and met with a few potential providers. Since the sale, we’ve learned from Amazon’s technology: We’ve started to track some metrics Amazon tracks, and we’re learning how it thinks about warehouse operations.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Sales Sales ROI 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

In many countries, business policies vary a great deal among individual cities, which is where companies actually operate. The authors consider metrics like these to be important barometers of the local business climate. Until recently, evaluations of these regulations have been conducted at the national level. Yet, one U.S.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate B2B Government Administration 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

In many countries, business policies vary a great deal among individual cities, which is where companies actually operate. The authors consider metrics like these to be important barometers of the local business climate. Until recently, evaluations of these regulations have been conducted at the national level. Yet, one U.S.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate B2B Government Administration 9

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

One of the reasons I’ve been excited about being a professional investor is the ability to apply my skills as an operator. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. The problem is that the Growth Accounting Framework provides for lagging metrics. There was a lot to learn.

Metrics 111

Metrics Scaling Marketing Accounts 111

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Scaling Software Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. economy (especially the real estate market) fell off the end of the table. To keep a finger on the financial pulse of the business, MBH Architects’ founders kept one eye on a key metric: the utilization of its people (i.e., Not growth, or even profits.

Revenue 9

Revenue Banking Real Estate Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Profitability isn’t a useful metric. The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. Perhaps the source of the problem is that it’s not clear when a brand should be euthanized.

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Real Estate Assets Marketing 15

AIHR

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

By analyzing performance metrics, organizations can support employee development and ensure their efforts align with business goals. Let’s take a look at 23 employee performance metrics that you should track. Contents What are employee performance metrics? This metric is also known as error rate.

Metrics 98

Metrics Revenue Sales Sales 98

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 7, 2025

Key Takeaways Meaning of employee engagement benchmarks Types of employee engagement benchmarks Key Employee Engagement Metrics to Set Up Benchmarking Measuring Employee Engagement through Surveys Benchmark score ways What is Employee Engagement? Then, the data is analyzed and transformed into meaningful metrics and benchmarks.

Benchmarking 104

Benchmarking Employee Engagement Metrics Real Estate 104