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

Harvard Business Review

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. Measure it. As the adage goes, you can’t manage what you can’t measure.