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Faith in the intrinsic value of education is common today. ''People are our most valuable asset,'' asserts one senior finance executive of an S&P 500 company. ''Anything we can do to invest in people is a good thing.''

That attitude will likely come as a surprise to those who think CFOs would want hard numbers to back up executive-education spending proposals. But as assistant editor Lisa Yoon reveals in ''Not by the Numbers,'' most finance executives seem interested in qualitative results rather than a pure ROI analysis.

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		Not by the Numbers While finance chiefs do seek tangible results from executive education programs, they don't like measuring their effects in terms of ROI.


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