Financial performance measurement

Strategies for ensuring stakeholder voices are heard and ESG goals are met.

This is a challenging time to be a CEO. Around the world, economic growth is slow, political uncertainty undermines attempts to develop long-term plans,...

The challenges are organizational.

Digital financial companies are making big claims about financial inclusion - but are failing to disclose data that backs up their efforts.

Every day, at almost every company, strategy is being hijacked by numbers. Because strategy is abstract, employees often mentally replace it with the...

This year, ESG moved from a “nice to have” to an essential part of corporate strategy — and there’s no going back.

Resource poverty distinguishes the management of small businesses from that of big businesses. An examination of fundamental financial concepts, such...

It drives revenue - and we know how much.

A financial services firm's ability to recover from an industry downturn depends not only on how it reacts during the slowdown but also on its state of...

I didn't anticipate that I would leave the country of Iceland with a renewed awareness of the different governance challenges faced by private and public...

More and more companies today are facing adaptive challenges: Changes in societies, markets, and technologies around the globe constantly force businesses...

Lately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder...

Innovation doesn't have to conflict with longstanding patient care values.

Researchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance--especially at large companies, where decision...

Despite the best efforts of senior executives, major change initiatives often fail. Those failures have at least one common root: Executives and employees...

A dynamic scorecard can help you predict future performance too.

Don't get trapped in your P&L.

Your legacy depends on a good succession plan.

What every manager ought to know about the different kinds of forecasting and the times when they should be used.

A recent analysis of 35,000 manufacturing plants found that those with more-structured management practices were more likely to acquire ones with less-structured...