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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

GAAP and FASB standards require financial reporting of earnings, cash flow, and profitability – all measures that investors have traditionally examined. We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Active investors such as hedge funds seek to outperform the market and index providers. Software and other companies that develop data mirrors and scores can grow their top and bottom lines with little or no marginal costs by building investable indices that correlate their unique insight and data to investor returns.