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

Harvard Business Review

But today’s great CEOs need to be equally great at managing human capital. How can we manage human capital better? A veritable alphabet soup (ROA, RONA, ROIC, ROCE, IRR, MVA, APV, and the like) exists to measure our financial capital. Invest human capital just like you invest financial capital.

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Untangling Skill and Luck

Harvard Business Review

We will define skill as "the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance" and luck as "events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual." Take, for instance, a group of companies that currently have high returns on invested capital (ROIC). The first is to define the terms.

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