Cost of Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Sep 2003
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Stan O’Neal

believer in the U.S. financial markets, O’Neal says that “despite some breaks in the system, the financial markets efficiently allocate capital to the best opportunities. This is the foundation of our... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance

04 May 2013
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James Dinan & Elizabeth Miller, both MBA 1985

For Jamie Dinan and Elizabeth Miller, endowing the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professorship of Business Management as a 25th Reunion gift was one more significant step along a mutual journey. Dinan, the founder, chairman, and... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

As president of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO), Sharon L. Patrick (MBA '78) oversees business strategy and operations at one of the country's most talked-about enterprises. She is a former partner at... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the... View Details

22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

and work together to find solutions. We do it every year in one of the capitals to make sure that the impact is reaching all of the GCC.” For attendees and this year’s 25... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

members who are living on the East Coast. During most of the 1990s, Gbadegesin was unable to go back to Nigeria because his family was blacklisted due to their involvement with the pro-democracy movement. “There is a View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2019
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Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

catalyze collaboration between HBS and SEAS as Harvard’s Allston campus evolves into an epicenter of research and innovation. A Focus on Education Education has been at the heart of Nunnelly’s and Dupré’s... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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End Game

Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

of the MS/MBA program, Perelson hopes to pursue an interest in real estate and tech. He got a taste of that during the summer of 2019 while working as an intern at Davidson... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

investors take notice, often increasing a company's market capitalization by millions of dollars. The pressure is intense, to say the least, but it's clear that Modigliani loves her job. "Every day the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

14 Jan 2022
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Nohria’s Next Move

In a message to the HBS community this week, former Dean Nitin Nohria shared his next chapter. “I am pursuing a new adventure as the Executive Chairman of Thrive Capital, a firm that invests in and builds technology-enabled companies.”... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

24 May 2017
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John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

over $4 trillion under management and maintains a sharp focus on low client costs for its 25 million investors. In 2008, at the age of 54, Brennan turned the company over to his handpicked successor, Bill... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

have their own age-specific needs and preference. Tingting Zhong, MBA 2006, Cofounder & Co-CEO Region: Asia/Pacific Deeper Pulse Deeper Pulse runs platform that generates innovative designs for electric motors. Its software provides motor manufacturers with large... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

examined four U.S. industrial giants from the 1900s to the 1940s, focusing on the executives who devised the decentralized, multidivisional structure of the large corporation. In Scale and Scope: The Dynamics View Details

12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

aspects of that data might create bias, then you absolutely will not build your algorithm with intentionality.” Ballard decided to field-test his idea on another underserved business population: the fledgling cannabis industry. Good Tree... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

spent much of his post-HBS career in energy finance, corporate finance, and public and private equity investment. In 2001, he cofounded ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Jan 2024
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Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details