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CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation

Harvard Business Review

” 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.

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

Harvard Business Review

Based on our research , inspired employees are three times more productive than dissatisfied employees, but they are rare. Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed. Invest human capital just like you invest financial capital. There you have it.