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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. Energy, too, is difficult to come by. How can we manage human capital better?