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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). After all, half of the top 20 companies traded on U.S.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). After all, half of the top 20 companies traded on U.S.