If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...

Investors favor companies that “skimp” on R&D, Ashley Vance recently reported in BloombergBusinessweek. You shouldn’t be shocked. Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has warned ...

Measuring performance is a key to evaluating how well employees are doing their work and companies are meeting their targets. A good performance metric gives hard data and yields results that measure ...

You may have heard the phrase “what gets measured gets managed.” So when we want something done, we slap a metric on it and manage toward that metric. Seems reasonable enough, right? It’s not, though.

I was talking with Tony about his benefits consulting company when he shared his biggest struggle. (Disclosure: Tony was a former business coaching client for three years.) “David, how do I get my ...

Learn how accounting measurement quantifies economic activities, enabling better business analysis and comparison through ...

As presidential candidates attempt to win the Latino vote, the labor vote and the women's vote, Lincoln Chafee, the ex-governor and senator from Rhode Island, seems to be going for the pro-metric vote ...

This planet of 8 billion people is bumping up against its ecological limits, and researchers are trying to quantify the effect of human activity on these finite resources. Some keep tallies of how ...

Photo Credit: Southwest Airlines was ahead of the airline industry so far in 2019 with the highest Net Promoter Score of 71, according to NICE Satmetrix research. Southwest Airlines The so-called ...