ASWATH DAMODARAN is an Associate Professor of Finance at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He has received several awards, including, the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award in 1990, Stern’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 1988, and the Professor of the Year Award in 1988, 1991, and 1992. He has written three books on equity valuation (Damodaran on Valuation, Investment Valuation, The Dark Side of Valuation) and two on corporate finance (Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice, Applied Corporate Finance: A User’s Manual). He has co-edited a book on investment management with Peter Bernstein (Investment Management) and has a book on investment philosophies (Investment Philosophies).  His newest book titled Investment Fables was released in 2004.  Mr. Damodaran also offers training programs in corporate finance and valuation at Deutsche Bank, Swiss Bank, Credit Suisse, J. P. Morgan, and Smith Barney. A former instructor at the University of California at Berkeley, he has written several articles for many of the nation’s leading financial journals. He received his MBA and Ph.D from the University of California at Los Angeles.