Cost of Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2020
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Accounting for Real Change

environmental record. Cohen, who serves as chairman of the Portland Trust and the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS, is a philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator. He is also the author View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Merton Named University Professor

Professor of Management. In 1988, he joined the HBS faculty. Merton's research is focused on developing finance theory in the areas of capital markets and financial... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off

Students in the second cohort of the new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program arrived on campus this summer. When Elisa MacColl (MS/MBA 2022), a consultant in L.E.K.’s life sciences practice, first considered graduate school, she... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

into serious trouble," says Karch, whose father was a retailer. "We helped them look beyond next season's fashions to see the importance of understanding how their economics worked, how their inventory flowed, and where their View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

15 May 2020
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New Menu

A couple of years ago, as his 50th birthday approached, Andrew D. Ive (MBA 1997) took a moment to consider his career. It had been a successful one, he thought. He had spent the previous 20 years building businesses, most recently at the... View Details

16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?

On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2009
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IXP 2009

Divided? The Economic Geography of Business (David Collis) China: Understanding a Business Environment (Regina Abrami) Israel: The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital “Miracle” (Dan Isenberg) Boston:... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Feb 2021
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Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

cutting them down.” Working in a test forest site in Western Australia, Maudous says the Lord of the Trees drones can plant more than a million trees—via proprietary seed pods—in just 48 hours, with a success rate View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Jul 2013
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The Good Writer

phone at his home in Los Angeles, Dick, one of eight writers on the show, has had about seven days to turn in a 60-page script. “My wife will tell you that I’m an insufferable ogre when I’m on deadline,” he says. “But you have to feed the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2021
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HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

technology to erase debt CEO and cofounder Rohan Pavuluri (AB 2018) was inspired to launch Upsolve, which helps low-income and working-class families overcome financial distress, after learning that a bankruptcy lawyer costs a prohibitive... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals

presentation on "Career Transition: Doing It All." She exhorted the world's future business leaders to consider that "you have a chance to become what you want to become." In an age of mass production and View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

need to cut the cost of a building by 10 percent in order to make the numbers work, they need to understand what has been given up. I'd like them to be better at visualizing the impact View Details

01 Apr 1997
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An Orchestral Startup

two years ahead of Executive Director Lim's business plan projections and is proof that pleasure mixed with business can indeed lead to personal harmony. A second-generation Korean-American, Lim grew up in a musical family in upstate New... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

that we hadn’t structured our capital right; we had a payment problem. In the consumer world, if I walked out of a store without paying, that’s called stealing. But in B2B it’s accepted that I’ll deliver my... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2017
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Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships

longtime supporters of multiple Harvard initiatives, including scholarships at Harvard College (from which Jeannie also graduated) and a training program for humanitarian relief workers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Alumni Books

Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic turbulence has arrived with a vengeance, and only companies that... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

14 Jan 2022
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Power Play

Courtesy Rahul Advani, Sara Graziano, Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1996, focused on the energy sector, he thought a future of accessible and affordable clean energy was a ways off. But as he... View Details

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

do that. The best I could do was help it and make it better. The bet was that there would be personal and professional upside that we could fix it. It was the opportunity cost of doing something else. It was... View Details

07 Nov 2018
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A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis

Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the... View Details

Keywords: water; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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