Aswath Damodaran is the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Damodaran's contributions to the field of finance have been recognized many times over and he 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. His skill and enthusiasm in the classroom garnered him the Schools of Business Excellence in Teaching Award in 1988 and the Distinguished Teaching Award from NYU in 1990. His student accolades are no less in profit. He has been voted Professor of the Year by the graduating MBA class five times during his career at NYU. In addition to a myriad of publications and academic journals, Professor Damodaran is the author of several highly regarded and widely used academic tacks on valuation, corporate finance, and investment management. Aswath is known as the 'Valuation Guru' and is regularly featured on television media outlets such as CNBC, MSNBC, and Bloomberg to name a few.