Aswath Damodaran CV
Aswath Damodaran CV
Professor of Finance
Stern School of Business
New York University
Aswath Damodaran is the Kerschner Family Chair Professor of Finance at the
Stern School of Business at New York University. He teaches the corporate finance and
valuation courses in the MBA program. He received his MBA and Ph.D from the
University of California at Los Angeles. His research interests lie in valuation, portfolio
management and applied corporate finance. He has published in the Journal of Financial
and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and
Valuation, The Dark Side of Valuation, The Little Book of Valuation), and two on
corporate finance (Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice, Applied Corporate Finance:
A Users Manual). He has co-edited a book on investment management with Peter
Philosophies) and one on cant miss investment strategies, titled Investment Fables. He
also has a book on the relationship between risk and value, Strategic Risk Taking, which
Aswath was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1984
to 1986, where he received the Earl Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award in 1985. He has
been at NYU since 1986, received the Stern School of Business Excellence in Teaching
Award (awarded by the graduating class) in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008,
2009 and 2013, and was the youngest winner of the University-wide Distinguished
Teaching Award (in 1990). He was profiled in Business Week as one of the top twelve
business school professors in the United States in 1994 and was elected as the most
popular business school professor in the US by MBA students across the country in a
2011 survey by Business Week. In 2012, he was chosen as one of the top ten business
school professors in the world by Poets and Quants, and his blog, Musings on Markets,
was selected by the Times of London as one of the top ten stock market blogs in the
world. Of course, as with any finance-oriented post, it should be emphasized that past
finance and valuation classes are carried online and on iTunes U (with more than 100,000
students on iTunes U) and his online classes were chosen as one of the top ten MOOCs in