Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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.

Skills 15

Skills ROIC Sports Cost of Capital 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

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.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15