Because while TSR does a good job of measuring performance outcomes for shareholders, it does not do a good job of signaling to plan participants how to deliver those outcomes.
Past performance is not necessarily a good guide to the future performance of investments.
It has a lot to do with the recent performance of the stock market, a pretty good measure of sentiment as well as one of the better leading indicators of real economic activity.
For computer users who need access to a lot of content, and many Macbook Pro users are film editors, graphic artists and other creative professionals who often need access to significant stored content, a good amount of local storage with higher performance at a lower price than apure SSD computer could be very attractive.
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The results should nonetheless give students a good sense of the relative performance of the different schools in delivering results.
As one of the lowest cost producers of carbon black, he has a good chance of a repeat performance with Columbian.
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He won easily among those who made up their minds in the last three days, thanks partly to a good performance in an eve-of-polling debate and partly to the late endorsement of Wisconsin's largest newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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The 90.3% drop was a good indicator, next to the performance of its rivals.
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Thus a device that uses flash memory to accelerate the performance of a HDD seems like a pretty good compromise between the two technologies.
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How do you deal with failure and poor performance against a backdrop of good numbers?
This sounds like a good idea, in terms of network performance, but is that the only thing going on here?
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"They do a good job of blending power, luxury and performance, " he said.
"The U.S. business was always good in terms of performance and a strong contributor to growth, " said analyst Christian Stark at CA Cheuvreux.
Dual drive configurations with SSDs and HDDs or hybrid HDDs could offer users a good compromise with performance and power usage approaching that of SSDs and capacity costs approaching that of HDDs.
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Last week Cisco posted a good quarterly performance for the first time in a while and has addressed the bloat by slashing thousands of jobs and is refocusing on the basics: routers and profit margins.
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Barring a ferocious bear stockmarket, on past performance WorldCom's stock will be a good deal more valuable at the end of such a wait than it is today.
The folks at Mahaya realized there was no way to see a concert or performance in a good perspective if you missed the event, but they knew there were thousands of people going to these events and doing all kinds of recording and posting it to social spaces.
"It was a pretty good performance until the last six or seven overs of the game, " said Ponting.
My team had a good performance, with a good goalkeeper and a little bit of luck.
Performance of the banking sector is often a good indicator of macro economic health.
This week provided a good example of why opinion about Mr Blunkett's performance is mixed.
Maersk's findings are in line with what most experts say -- that intelligence tests are fairly good at predicting people's performance across a range of jobs.
No, we haven't driven the E55 AMG or the SL55 AMG, but we already have a good inkling of what those cars would provide: autobahn performance that isn't really relevant in this country.
Still, despite not knowing much, we wanted to give you a look at this device anyway because we thought it would be a good opportunity to give you some early impressions of the performance.
But at a time when other troubled retail chains, such as Radioshack and Best Buy, merely talk of ways to improve the performance of their shrinking store sales, GameStop is aggressively taking the kind of action that stands a good chance of actually doing so.
We played well continuously over the course of the game, so it was a good performance.
Is GE's poor performance since Mr Welch left a reflection of how good a job he did, and how hard he has been to replace?
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Therefore, I would say, out with the performance-related pay for top managers (a good bottle of wine at Christmas and, if you insist, a small cheque like the rest of us would do).
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Long-time readers are likely well aware that the period beginning November 1 through April 30 historically has been very good for our newsletter portfolios (past performance never a guarantee of future performance) with returns over the last 22 years averaging 22% per annum!
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That this is happening says a good deal about the culture and, by extension, recent business performance of MLB.
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