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

Harvard Business Review

A veritable alphabet soup (ROA, RONA, ROIC, ROCE, IRR, MVA, APV, and the like) exists to measure our financial capital. There are likely many more creative solutions out there. But today’s great CEOs need to be equally great at managing human capital. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it. Time is finite.