Table of contents for How to measure anything : finding the value of "intangibles" in business / Douglas W. Hubbard.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Section I 	Measurement: The Solution Exists 
Chapter 1	The Intangibles and the Challenge
Chapter 2	An Intuitive Measurement Habit: Eratosthenes, Enrico & Emily
How an Ancient Greek Measured the Size of the Earth
Estimating: Be like Fermi
Experiments: Not just for adults
Notes on What to Learn from Eratosthenes, Enrico and Emily
Chapter 3	The Illusion of Intangibles: Why Immeasurables Aren?t
The Concept of Measurement
The Object of Measurement
The Methods of Measurement
Economic Objections to Measurement
The Broader Objection to the Usefulness of ?Statistics?
Ethical Objections to Measurement
Toward A Universal Approach to Measurement
Section II 	Before You Measure 
Chapter 4	Clarifying the Measurement Problem
Getting the Language Right: What Uncertainty and Risk Really Mean
Examples of Clarification: Lessons for Business from, of all places, Government?
Chapter 5	Calibrated Estimates: How Much Do You Know Now?
Calibration Exercise
Further Improvements on Calibration
Conceptual Obstacles to Calibration
The Effects of Calibration
Chapter 6	Measuring Risk: Introduction to the Monte Carlo
An Example for Monte Carlo and Risk
Tools and other Resources for Monte Carlo Simulations
The Risk Paradox
Chapter 7	Measuring the Value of Information
The Chance of Being Wrong and The Cost of Being Wrong: Expected Opportunity Loss
The Value of Information for Ranges
The Imperfect World: The Value of Partial Uncertainty Reduction
The Epiphany Equation: The Value of a Measurement Changes Everything
Summarizing Uncertainty, Risk and Information Value: The first measurements
Section III 	Measurement Methods 
Chapter 8	The Transition: From What Measure to How to Measure
Tools of Observation: Introduction to the Instrument of Measurement
Decomposition
Secondary Research: Assuming You Weren?t the First to Measure It
The Basic Methods of Observation: If One Doesn?t Work, Try the Next
Measure Just Enough
Consider the Error
Choose and Design the Instrument
Chapter 9	Sampling Reality: How Observing Some Things Tells Us about All Things
Building an Intuition for Random Sampling: The Jelly Bean Example
A Little About Little Samples: A Beer Brewers Approach
The Easiest Sample Statistics Ever
A Sample of Sampling Methods
Measure to the Threshold
Experiment
Seeing Relationships in the Data: An Introduction to Regression Modeling
Chapter 10	Bayes: Adding to What You Know Now
Simple Bayesian
Using Your Natural Bayesian Instinct
Heterogeneous Benchmarking: A ?Brand Damage? Application
Getting a Bit More Technical: Bayesian Inversion for Ranges
Section IV 	Beyond the Basics 
Chapter 11	Preference & Attitudes - The Softer Side of Measurement
Observing Opinions, Values, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Basics
A Willingness to Pay: Measuring Value via Trade Offs
Putting it all on the Line: Quantifying Risk Tolerance
Quantifying Subjective Tradeoffs: Dealing with Multiple Conflicting Preferences?
Keeping the Big Picture in Mind: Profit Maximization vs. Subjective Tradeoffs
Chapter 12	The Ultimate Measurement Instrument - Human Judges
Homo Absurdus: The Weird Reasons Behind Our Decisions
Getting Organized: A Performance Evaluation Example
Surprisingly Simple Linear Models
How to Standardize Any Evaluation: Rasch Models
Removing Human Inconsistency: The Lens Model
Panacea or Placebo?: Questionable Methods of Measurement
Comparing the Methods
Chapter 13	New Measurement Instruments for Management
The 21st Century Tracker: Keeping Tabs with Technology

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Intangible property -- Valuation.