For companies to achieve high performance, this severe problem needs to be comprehensively addressed.
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Second, as the flotations of Fortress and Blackstone, two large and varied alternative-investment firms, have shown, the stockmarket is willing to pay a very high multiple for companies that earn performance fees.
There will likely be some fall-out for high performance HDDs in these markets and the HDD companies such as Seagate, HGST (part of Western Digital) and Toshiba are introducing their own enterprise SSD products to stay competitive in this high margin business.
But how do high performing companies use recognition to drive strong business performance and accountability in their organizations?
The suit says that the notes were marketed as a synthetic CDO that was tied to the performance of major companies and sovereign nations with high credit ratings.
As one of the first U.S. loudspeaker companies, Klipsch continues to be the high-performance brand of choice for audiophiles and home theater aficionados around the world.
Flip through the pages of any financial publication and you will likely see several ads by mutual fund companies touting their superior relative historical performance and high ranking amongst their peer group and benchmark.
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The other requirement for steady performance is that the credit markets remain open, enabling high-yield companies to roll over maturing debt.
The underlying Solactive Global Oil Equities Index tracks the performance of 25 equal-weighted companies that have shown a high correlation to the spot price of oil.
Besides speed, the core switch, which is said to collapse optical and high-performance multiprotocol switching, is being positioned as a better way for companies to manage peak demand, as well as the different types of mobile, video, and landline traffic that must be managed efficiently.
Companies like venture-backed NovaTorque have produced cleverly designed high-performance rare-earth-free electric motors.
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Companies use salaries and raises to retain their high performers, but measuring performance itself is difficult, especially in fields that defy simple metrics like widgets built or customer-service calls answered.
Going forward, the hardest hit companies will likely be those whose offerings are strongly concentrated in high-performance hardware or software, rather than nitty-gritty tasks like outsourcing data centers or security and compliance spending.
Zynga has been a disaster for shareholders this year, plunging almost 80%, as sky-high valuations for social media companies on the private market have proven poor indicators of public sector performance.
Collins focuses his investments on companies with strong recent growth in sales and earnings and exhibiting high relative strength in stock price performance.
In fact, the Corporate Leadership Council reports that companies which enjoy high engagement rates have 87 percent lower staff turnover rates and 20 percent better performance.
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McKinsey, a consultancy, recently looked at 89 listed companies in Europe with a very high proportion of women in senior management posts and compared their financial performance with the average for firms in the same industry.
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