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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

According to ComScore, at the end of 2011 Facebook accounted for a shocking 28% of U.S. For every 10 investments, a good firm may have one defining investment, returning hundreds of percent in IRR. display advertisements online. However, the advertising business is dependent on visits to Facebook's website.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

A veritable alphabet soup (ROA, RONA, ROIC, ROCE, IRR, MVA, APV, and the like) exists to measure our financial capital. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it. As the adage goes, you can’t manage what you can’t measure. You can actively measure the amount of difference-making talent that you have in your organization.