James P. Harrington
Director, Kroll
James P. Harrington is a Director at Kroll (previously Duff & Phelps) James is a member of the Kroll Valuation Digital Solutions group, which produces cost of capital thought leadership content and data housed in the Cost of Capital Navigator at kroll.com/costofcapitalnavigator.
•James provides technical support on client engagements involving cost of capital and is a leading contributor to Kroll’s efforts in the development of studies, surveys, and online content and tools.
•Previously, James was director of valuation research in Morningstar's Financial Communications Business where he led the group that produced the Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation® (SBBI®) Valuation Yearbook, Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation® (SBBI®) Classic Yearbook, Cost of Capital Yearbook, various international cost of capital reports, and created a website dedicated to cost of capital issues.
•James is co-author of the “Valuation Handbook” series with colleagues Carla Nunes and Roger Grabowski. The four Valuation Handbooks were published as physical books starting in 2014; as of 2021 the information and data previously published in the Valuation Handbooks has been transitioned over to the Cost of Capital Navigator at kroll.com/costofcapitalnavigator.
•James is co-author of the Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation® (SBBI®) 2021 Summary Edition with Roger Ibbotson (Professor in the Practice Emeritus of Finance at Yale School of Management). The SBBI® 2021 Summary Edition is produced in a partnership of Kroll, the CFA Institute Research Foundation, and Morningstar, Inc.
•James is a contributing author to Cost of Capital: Applications and Examples, 5th edition, by Shannon P. Pratt and Roger J. Grabowski (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014).
•James is a contributing author to Shannon Pratt’s Valuing a Business – The Analysis and Appraisal of Closely Held Companies, Sixth ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2022).
•James was a co-author of the Kroll’s “ESG and Global Investor Returns Study” (2023) which examined the relationship between historical returns of over 13,000 publicly traded companies across a variety of geographies and industries and their ESG ratings to determine the correlation of ESG ratings to company performance.