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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. It would implement targets linked to shareholder value, including ROE and ROIC.

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

Harvard Business Review

Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent. A veritable alphabet soup (ROA, RONA, ROIC, ROCE, IRR, MVA, APV, and the like) exists to measure our financial capital. Time, whether measured by hours in a day or days in a career, is finite.