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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Financial capital is assumed to be virtually unlimited, while certain types of human capital are in short supply. In the meanwhile, companies increasingly resort to provision of proforma and non-GAAP reports, even though this practice is looked down upon by the SEC and is opportunistically misused by a few companies.

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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. Using these two domains, previous leadership and human capital work may be synthesized into a leadership capital index that investors can use to inform their valuation decisions.

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The U.S. Corporate Tax Code Is Broken. How Should We Fix It?

Harvard Business Review

And, nothing could be more important to our economy than the efficient allocation of financial, real and human capital. and the allocation of corporate talent and efforts (away from productive uses and toward rent-seeking). Cook squarely placed the blame on a U.S. corporate tax code that "has not kept up with the digital age."