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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

To make sure they're comparing apples to apples, they discount those future cash flows to arrive at their net present value. 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.

CAPM 13
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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

In operational engineering, PE firms develop industry and operating expertise that they bring to bear to add value to their portfolio companies. 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 Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. You know, the future value of money, the present value of money — money today is worth more than in the future because you can invest it and get interest. And the theory that was available then was CAPM.

CAPM 8