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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. One of the architects of the survey, Mark Scott, is also one of its beneficiaries. The same is true for the CAPM. ".

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders. Furthermore, few PE investors explicitly use the capital asset price model (CAPM) to determine a cost of capital.

CAPM 8
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Why Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Download this pdf for an executive summary, or login here for the full report.)