Cost of Capital Development Leadership P&L 
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2013
At many companies the total cash investment in acquisitions, R&D, and fixed assets has not earned back its cost of capital after adjusting for the time lag in realizing incremental benefits. It reflected the reality that a lot of GE’s growth will be coming from the developing world, and the leaders have to be there.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams.
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