Financing Innovation - Common Mistakes Even Great Investors Make

Innovation cannot happen without the funding to bring an idea to life. In this webinar Stanford Professor Peter DeMarzo, Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business and instructor within the Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship certificate, discusses how to value ideas and innovations so they receive the proper funds to launch.

Introduction.
Risk & Return: Insights from 86 Years of Investor History.
Return Volatility.
Risk vs. Return: The Security Market Line.
How Do Individual Investors Behave?.
Individuals Trade A Lot.
Individual Performance.
Turnover and Returns.
Swimming with Sharks: Picking Stocks, or Picked Off?.
Mutual Fund Performance.
Institutional Fund Managers.
Active vs. Passive Investing.
A Star has Fallen: Bill Miller's Legg Mason Value Trust.
Some Final Thoughts....
New Course Launching in September: Financing Innovation: Valuing Projects and Firms.