Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2013

As Global Knowledge wraps up the current four-year review cycle and anticipate the new, refreshed outcome, they have an opportunity to identify what has changed and how it may affect the professional practice of project management throughout the world. Complimentary Resource – Data Quality: A Survival Guide for Marketing.

PMBOK 50

PMBOK CAPM Resources Business Intelligence 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. It's the opening paragraph of a Harvard Business Review article called "What's Your Real Cost of Capital?" by James J.

CAPM 13

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

At the annual meeting of the American Finance Association in 1969, Fama presented a paper (published the next year in the Journal of Finance ) summing up what he and others had learned about stock market behavior over the previous decade and sketching out a way forward. Shiller, who got his Ph.D. It didn’t change Fama’s mind.

CAPM 8

CAPM Finance Price Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. Furthermore, few PE investors explicitly use the capital asset price model (CAPM) to determine a cost of capital.

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow CAPM Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products? respectively, suggesting that market risk is the major driver of our inability to predict. Look at the variance of your new-market products. Though there are multiple types of prediction, the gold standard is the prediction of precise outcomes.

Black-Scholes 8

Black-Scholes Productivity Products CAPM 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. It’s not something that necessarily resonates a lot with people in the markets or people in the world.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

In estimating the cost of equity, nearly nine out of ten organizations use the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), which calculates the cost of equity using a risk-free rate, beta factor, and a market risk premium, each of which introduces significant variability. Current market debt/equity ratio. Under $1 billion revenue.

Cost of Capital 13

Cost of Capital Cost CAPM Discounted Cash Flow 13