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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

One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management. Active investors such as hedge funds seek to outperform the market and index providers. SAP, for example, has data on a variety of transactional domains, from customer orders to vacation balances.