Indeed, benchmarks do play a valid role in evaluating the performance of a specific fund manager.
What about all the other outcome measures that are relevant to evaluating the performance of a medical system and on which the U.S. ranks very high?
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Particularly noteworthy this past year was definition of a specific framework and process for evaluating the performance of the Social Innovation Fund itself over the next five years relative to the expectations of Congress and the Administration.
Petitioner used profit and loss statements prepared with QuickBooks, but there is scant evidence that petitioner used them for the important purposes of cutting expenses, increasing profits, and evaluating the overall performance of the operation.
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Recently, there have been a number of studies evaluating and championing the performance of responsible investment portfolios as an alternative to traditional notions of capitalism touted by Friedman.
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In particular, when evaluating their performance, the team attributed its success to its capabilities without carefully considering other factors that may have been relevant, such as how good the competitors were or even luck.
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You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.
"Over the past few months, we at Caribou have revisited our business strategy, including closely evaluating our performance by market to make decisions that best position us for long-term growth, " the announcement said.
Now, here's what a firewall law is: It basically says that you can't factor in the performance of students when you're evaluating teachers.
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Whether these 4, 000 freelance inspectors approve aid for the undeserving often isn't a factor in evaluating performance.
Guidelines developed for professional pension fiduciaries, subject to a legal duty to safeguard participant benefits, can be especially enlightening as to, for example, the importance of following a defined, disciplined process and evaluating performance against established benchmarks.
Some employers are re-evaluating their retirement plans' stable-value options in the wake of poor performance during the financial crisis.
Union leaders also rejected the perfectly reasonable demand from the city of Chicago that standardized test scores play a role in evaluating teacher performance.
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