The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The author believes that while lower costs of capital would certainly help raise the entrepreneurship rate, it would be most beneficial to entrepreneurs with lower skills. This would have less of an impact on higher-skilled entrepreneurs, for whom the decline has been most pronounced.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering 87

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For any business to succeed over the long term, it must earn a return that exceeds its cost of capital. It is through continuously making incremental progress in lowering costs and increasing revenues that firms achieve competitive advantage in their industry. Here are four things leaders can do.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The goal of strategy is profitable growth, meaning economic value above the firm’s cost of capital. Soon, it really doesn’t matter what your strategic planning documents say. Smartly reducing assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital requires good links with evolving market realities. (

Debt to Equity Ratio 10

Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 10