International Cost Of Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

ones that I like is SpaceX, because again, in experimentalism you tend to think: can’t be done in heavy industry. Space is the heaviest industry. What SpaceX has done is remarkable. In the course of only 20 years, they’ve taken NASA’s... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

National Grid and as founder and president of National Grid Partners, directing $400 million in startups and internal innovations that offer unique approaches to managing supply and demand, increasing ef... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

12 Feb 2024
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Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award

education and entrepreneurship.” LeFebvre went on to become cofounder and managing partner for AIC International Investments. Then, in 2006, he founded 3.5.7.11, a privately owned equity investment firm. It has raised more than $1 billion... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

by the traditional market and sells food baskets at a fraction of the cost of "perfect" produce. As the first female-funded VC firm in the region, MAYA View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, by Richard Schwartz, after hearing from a gifted psychologist that Schwartz’s approach was one of the few she thought... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup

work for a startup has anywhere near the resources that a venture capital firm is going to have to do that kind of due diligence, nor do they actually have the time to do it, because usually you get an offer... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

dilemma while participating in the second semester required course The Entrepreneurial Manager taught by Shikhar Ghosh, the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice and the faculty cochair View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

16 May 2024
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On the Job

came very close to costing me an entire career. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna asked this year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor... View Details

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

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

secondhand truck and started delivering fuel oil; that was the founding of our company. I felt it was essential to go to college and business school to prepare for the business world. HBS taught me how to stand up for my views, be a good... 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

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

dictatorship and ignite processes of economic development. He then aimed to project authoritarianism elsewhere in Southeast Asia by assisting right-wing dictators across the region. International View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

01 Jun 1999
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Allison Hughes

International Student Committee, she helped increase representation of women and U.S. executives at the committee's annual symposium on management in Switzerland. Graduating magna cum laude in economics with... View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

vulnerable assets are less valuable. Businesses that act ahead of the herd can both capitalize on the opportunities that change will bring and reduce its impact on society. Kyung-Ah Park (MBA 1998) Managing... View Details

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

Case Howard (Ted) Greene (MBA 1967) “Ant Financial” Rebecca E. Katz (AMP 193, 2017) “Lisa Sherman” Alterrell Mills (MBA 2016) “Fenchel Lampshade” Julie Lopez Santiago (MBA 1994) “Danaher Corporation” Bala V. Sathyanarayanan (AMP 192, 2017) “Profiles View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

19 Apr 2024
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Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details