Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at NYU

Aswath Damodaran

Company Life Cycle: How to Act Your Company's Age

Aswath Damodaran is the Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He teaches corporate finance and valuation courses in the MBA program. 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 the Review of Financial Studies.

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Aswath Damodaran is internationally recognized for his teaching approach, using theory and the models that flow from it to understand, analyze and solve problems. He treats corporate finance as a living discipline by making it much more applied than other content.

He has published articles in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies, and has written two books on equity valuation and two on corporate finance.

Aswath Damodaran get fantastic ratings as a speaker. His popular talk from Nordic Business Forum in 2018 got viral with more than 800,000 views due to his unique insights.

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Company Life Cycle: How to Act Your Company's Age

As disruption and uncertain unsettle companies, they are being sold a bill of goods by consultants, bankers and business experts that there is pathway for every company, no matter what it's standing, to make its way back to profitability and growth. Not only is this a lie, but the money spent in the process, is a drain on shareholders and society. Learning to live within limits requires companies to understand when their best days are behind them, accepting decline and death, in some cases, and growth and change, in others.