Implied Cost Of Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
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On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb

Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details

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17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

and harder and harder. To break out of that you don't need any more capability, but you do need enormous courage to say, if I am going to be really good at something, I am going to be bad at something else. If I am going to compete on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 May 2024
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On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

American Heart Journal Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States? by R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al We use time-driven activity-based View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

social entity. These bonds of membership create the social capital of a profession, which builds trust and significantly reduces transaction View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

This metric incorporates the benefit of free rent and other concessions they receive from landlords on the front-end without disclosing the future costs the company will incur when these concessions burn... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

worked in an organization that crossed far over the line where a pride in being the most prestigious firm in their industry became arrogance The result of this was stagnation and a rigid resistance to change, and the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018) - MBA

anxiety around cost initially. But when you go through recruiting in your first year, you start to understand the job market and what you’ll be making after graduation and realize you will be able to pay off your debt. As I got closer to... View Details

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

anything.” That translates to engineers, designers, and medical professionals’ accessing 3D printers at a fraction of the cost available elsewhere to innovate and make an impact. Recently, Formlabs partnered... View Details

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

you have to make judgments about the extent and timing of the overlap depending on the circumstance. We are recommending a sequence that our research and experience show leads to more rapid and cost... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

rises to the top levels are very productive and very diligent individuals who tend not to reflect and are extremely efficient at deploying other people's ideas," implying that this type of leader is not... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

expense for fiscal 2023 decreased by $2 million, or 4 percent, from the prior year to $43 million. The School’s depreciation expense amounted to 4 percent of total operating costs in fiscal 2023, compared... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

their global competitiveness. Their approach was simple: They centralized huge scale and built all the Toyotas in Toyoda City. Or they produced all the Panasonic VCRs out of Osaka. These huge, centralized, scale-intensive operations drove... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

products, but they became worldwide brands because of the capabilities of Unilever. Their success rested on the choices made on strategy and organization, on the recruitment and development View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

human capital and the machine learning toolbox stand to improve decision-making and product development. But doing so requires careful consideration of the balance between personalization and privacy. At... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

T. Chien 01 NOV 2024 | Hospital Pediatrics Capital Market Integration and Growth across the United States By: Leonardo D'Amico and Maxim Alekseev 31 OCT 2024 | Faculty & Research Trade Policy in the Shadow View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

stability. Funding How much do you need – and what will it cost you? Like the legal structure of your enterprise, your choice (or choices) of funding options has an enduring... View Details

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

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