Aswath Damodaran teaches corporate finance and valuation at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he has built a reputation as one of the most trusted voices on how to actually put a number on a business. Colleagues and students often refer to him as the Dean of Valuation, a nickname earned through decades of teaching, writing, and publicly sharing his own valuation work rather than keeping it behind closed doors. He runs a widely followed blog called Musings on Markets, where he regularly walks through real time valuations of companies in the news, and he freely posts detailed spreadsheets, datasets, and recorded lectures on his NYU webpage for anyone who wants to learn the craft firsthand. Beyond this book, he has written several other respected texts on the subject, including the more technical Investment Valuation and Narrative and Numbers, which explores in depth the relationship between the stories investors tell and the figures they build around them. The Little Book of Valuation itself belongs to the popular Little Books, Big Profits series from Wiley, a collection built around the idea that experienced investors and academics can distill their expertise into something genuinely useful for everyday readers rather than only for professionals.
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