Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

To make sure they're comparing apples to apples, they discount those future cash flows to arrive at their net present value. knew that firms were making heavy use of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to size up growth opportunities, but that the model was only as good as its inputs. The same is true for the CAPM. ".

CAPM 14

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. What PE firms do after they invest.

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow CAPM Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And the theory that was available then was CAPM. It goes back to the 1970s.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8