# Prof. Aswath Damodaran's views on mergers and acquisitions are highlighted

1 Faculty News November 3, 2014 ![The New Yorker logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032750.jpg?itok=hERliZMl)>

Excerpt from [The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/le-divorce-2) -- "The brute fact is that most mergers don’t work. [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a finance professor at N.Y.U., has said, 'More value is destroyed by acquisitions than by any other single action taken by companies.'"

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