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.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
There are basically four ways to create that value: (1) invest in projects that earn more than their cost of capital; (2) increase profits from existing capital investments; (3) reduce the assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital; and (4) reduce the cost of capital itself. But consider the basics.
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