326: How too much debt impacts cost of capital (Strategy Skills classics)

326: How too much debt impacts cost of capital (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic where we discuss how your cost of capital changes as you take on more debt and how this change is different between organizations. It's a crucial concept for this utility. We explain how the cost of capital change usually takes place and then we review the drivers at play that are different for this power utility vs. an average company.

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