IRRC Institute, The Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program – Thursday, April 23, 2015
A new research study connects the dots on the relationship between corporate human resources (HR) policies and investment outcomes such as return on equity, return on investment and profit margins. Of the many studies of human capital policies, the new paper examines 92 that focus on the links to corporate financial performance. The authors find that a large majority of the studies conducted over several decades and encompassing dozens of countries and industries reported positive correlations.