Debt to Equity Ratio Development Finance Management 
Niagara Institute
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
You’re sitting at your first meeting as a new member of your organization’s management team. The head of finance is talking about cash flow, debt to equity ratio, and EBITA. You are thrilled to be in this new role and faced with new responsibilities outside of the functional job you once excelled in.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 13, 2015
In fact, analysts and investors want companies to use debt smartly to fund their businesses. That’s where the debt-to-equity ratio comes in. What is the debt-to-equity ratio? “It’s a simple measure of how much debt you use to run your business,” explains Knight.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2011
Losses in AP will overwhelm many institutions' equity cushion. The average debt-to-equity ratio of the 10 largest MFIs in India is 7.06 , indicating an average 12% equity cushion. In a recent paper, Jonathan Morduch and Jonathan Conning explain the role of debt and equity financing in the microfinance industry.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2018
Nonetheless, statistics show that women-owned businesses, which account for one-third of Swedish businesses, are not granted the corresponding proportion of government venture financing; in fact, women-owned businesses receive only 7%. Debt-to-equity ratio (leverage): the degree to which an entrepreneur exposes his or her business to risks.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 20, 2011
DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Brown noted a simple fact: Return on equity can be broken down into a three-part equation. Thus Brown not only sowed the seeds of the today's hated silos, he also set three "runaways" in motion.
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