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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

March 2004: Autonomy acquires NativeMinds and Cardiff Software. Lynch is among them, for “failure to meet agreed performance goals, including financial metrics.” November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

CIO Business Intelligence

According to a recent McKinsey report , global sustainable investment is more than $30 trillion, a tenfold increase from 2004. As Harvard Business Review recently shared , “Metrics like ROI or IRR are generally broken. Second, it’s worth following the investors.

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Overcoming Common Challenges in Natural Language Processing

Sisense

Sisense was founded in 2004 in Tel Aviv by Elad Israeli, Eldad Farkash, Aviad Harell, Guy Boyangu, and Adi Azaria. Scott enables our data-driven culture by using insights to make actionable decisions by ongoing review of Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success performance metrics. Amit Bendov was appointed CEO in July 2012.

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Why Data Driven Decision Making is Your Path To Business Success

datapine

While sometimes it’s okay to follow your instincts, the vast majority of your business-based decisions should be backed by metrics, facts, or figures related to your aims, goals, or initiatives that can ensure a stable backbone to your management reports and business operations. In most cases, this can prove detrimental to the business.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

Bonus One: Read: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns ]. There are many different tools, both online and offline, that measure the elusive metric called brand strength. The graph shows the change over time, starting in Jan 2004. This is a lot more interesting.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

With more features come more potential post hoc hypotheses about what is driving metrics of interest, and more opportunity for exploratory analysis. Looking at metrics of interest computed over subpopulations of large data sets, then trying to make sense of those differences, is an often recommended practice (even on this very blog).