# Prof. Aswath Damodaran's blog post on stock-based employee compensation is featured

1 Faculty News November 5, 2014 ![Yahoo Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoofinance.jpg?itok=iQnyXkp_)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo! Finance](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/alibaba-joins-facebook-in-downplaying-employee-stock-cost-to-puff-up-results-162300085.html) -- "[Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), professor at New York University Stern School of Business and an expert in equity valuation, nicely dismantled the idea that equity comp is not an expense in this February blog post, which uses Twitter as a case study."

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