Economics & Finance

Aswath Damodaran

Professor of Finance, New York University Stern School of Business

Aswath Damodaran holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and is Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. Before joining Stern, he lectured in Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Damodaran has been the recipient of Giblin, Glucksman, and Heyman Fellowships, a David Margolis Teaching Excellence Fellowship, and the Richard L. Rosenthal Award for Innovation in Investment Management and Corporate Finance.

He has also won the Stern School of Business Excellence in Teaching Award in 1988, and the Distinguished Teaching award from NYU in 1990. He has been voted "Professor of the Year" by the graduating M.B.A. class nine times during his career at NYU.

In addition to myriad publications in academic journals, Professor Damodaran is the author of several highly-regarded and widely-used academic texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance, and Investment Management.

Professor Damodaran currently teaches Corporate Finance and Valuation to the MBAs. His interests lie in disentangling value drivers and understanding market pricing and behavior.

He is known as the ‘Dean of Valuation’ in the finance community.

Professor Damodaran is the author of Musing on Markets, a blog on corporate finance and valuation.

Known As: ‘The Dean Of Valuation’.

Courses Taught: Corporate Finance; Equity Instruments & Markets.

Education

Ph.D. Finance, University of California, Los Angeles · M.B.A. Finance, University of California, Los Angeles · M.S. Management, Indian Institute of Management · B.Com. Accounting, Madras University

Topics

Accounting · Finance · Earnings Management · Shareholder Issues/Activism · Valuation · Berkshire Hathaway · Asset Management · Corporate Finance · Corporate Governance · Portfolio Management · Housing/Real Estate · Restructuring & Layoffs