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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. It's the opening paragraph of a Harvard Business Review article called "What's Your Real Cost of Capital?" That paragraph isn't my own writing. by James J. McNulty, Tony D.

CAPM 13
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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. In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches.

CAPM 8