News & Publications
In the News
“Does Employee Engagement Really Drive Results?”, Talent Management, March 2010.
CEOs Leading Talent (with Larry Costello), draft manuscript, March 2010.
Leadership Development for Educators (with Herb Rubenstein and Mike Miles), Rowman and Littlefield, November 2009.
“Employers’ Perspective on Human Capital Management and Development,” Education Working Paper No. 18, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, January 2009.
“Toward A Human Capital Measurement Methodology,” Advances in Developing Human Resources, Volume 10, Number 6, December 2008.
Harvard Business Review, March 2007, "Maximizing Your Return on People"
Australia Human Resources Magazine, January 2007, "Investing in People: Convincing the CFO"
HR Monthly, November 2006, "Hard Data: An Interview with Laurie Bassi"
Forbes, April 25, 2005, "Blame the Accountants"
Human Capital Institute, February 2005, "Investing in People Who Invest in People"
Human Resource Executive, February 2005, "The Capital Idea"
HR Magazine, January 2005, "Blind Investment"
Harvard Business Review, March 2004 "How's Your Return on People?"
The Sunday Nation (Bangkok, Thailand), July 2004, "People are assets not costs"
Training Magazine, August 2002, "Measuring Corporate Smarts"
Training & Development Magazine, April 2002, "Above the Bottom Line"
New York Times, March 2002, "Within Companies, Too, Education Proves Its Value"
Recent Publications by McBassi Principals
Harvard Business Review, "Maximizing Your Return on People", March 2007.
2006 Pfeiffer Annual, "Beyond Employee Satisfaction, ROI, and the Balanced Scorecard: Improving Business Results through Improved Human Capital Measurement."
Organizational Dynamics, "Developing Measurement Systems for Managing in the Knowledge Era" 34:2 (185-196), 2005.
Handbook of Business Strategy 2005 (Coate, ed.), "What to Do When People are Your Most Important Asset" (219-224).
Milken Review, "Are Skills a Cost or an Asset?", 3rd Quarter 2004.
Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practice Conner and Clawson, (eds.), "Using Measurement to Foster Culture and Sustainable Growth," 2004.
Harvard Business Review, "How's Your Return on People?", March 2004.
Workplace Education for Low-Wage Workers, 2003, Upjohn Institute Press.
Singapore Management Review, "Profiting From Learning: Firm-Level Effects of Training Investments and Market Implications," 2002 (vol. 24, no. 3).