Rate My Professor Aswath Damodaran

Aswath Damodaran holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and is Professor of Finance in the Business & Economics faculty at New York University Stern School of Business. He earned a B.Com. in Accounting from Madras University in 1977, an M.S. in Management from the Indian Institute of Management in 1979, an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Finance from UCLA in 1985. Prior to joining Stern in 1986, he lectured in Finance at the University of California, Berkeley from 1984 to 1986, where he received the Earl Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award in 1985. Damodaran teaches corporate finance and valuation courses to MBA students, a valuation class to undergraduates, and offers occasional short-term classes on these topics. His research specializations include valuation, portfolio management, applied corporate finance, information and prices, real estate, corporate governance, asset management, and equity risk premiums. He has published papers in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.