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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466030003321

Autore

Damodaran Aswath

Titolo

Narrative and numbers : the value of stories in business / / Aswath Damodaran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia Business School Publishing, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-231-54274-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 284 p.)

Collana

Columbia Business School Publishing

Classificazione

40.08

Disciplina

332.63222

Soggetti

Investments - Accounting

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-270) and index

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A Tale of Two Tribes -- 2. Tell Me a Story -- 3. The Elements of Storytelling -- 4. The Power of Numbers -- 5. Number-Crunching Tools -- 6. Building a Narrative -- 7. Test-Driving a Narrative -- 8. From Narratives to Numbers -- 9. Numbers to Value -- 10. Improving and Modifying Your Narrative- The Feedback Loop -- 11. Narrative Alterations-The Real World Intrudes -- 12. News and Narratives -- 13. Go Big-The Macro Story -- 14. The Corporate Life Cycle -- 15. The Managerial Challenge -- 16. The Endgame -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How can a company that has never turned a profit have a multibillion dollar valuation? Why do some start-ups attract large investments while others do not? Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, adding substance to numbers and persuading even cautious investors to take risks. In business, there are the storytellers who spin compelling narratives and the number-crunchers who construct meaningful models and accounts. Both are essential to success, but only by combining the two, Damodaran argues, can a business deliver and sustain value.Through a range of case studies, Narrative and Numbers describes how storytellers can better incorporate and narrate numbers and how number-crunchers can calculate more imaginative models that



withstand scrutiny. Damodaran considers Uber's debut and how narrative is key to understanding different valuations. He investigates why Twitter and Facebook were valued in the billions of dollars at their public offerings, and why one (Twitter) has stagnated while the other (Facebook) has grown. Damodaran also looks at more established business models such as Apple and Amazon to demonstrate how a company's history can both enrich and constrain its narrative. And through Vale, a global Brazil-based mining company, he shows the influence of external narrative, and how country, commodity, and currency can shape a company's story. Narrative and Numbers reveals the benefits, challenges, and pitfalls of weaving narratives around numbers and how one can best test a story's plausibility.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774895203321

Autore

Giagnoni Nicola

Titolo

Archivio delle Minime Ancille della Santissima Trinità€ o Montalve alla Quiete di Firenze : Inventario (1555-1886) / / Nicola Giagnoni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Florence : , : Firenze University Press, , 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages)

Collana

Fragmentaria. Studi di storia culturale e antropologia religiosa

Disciplina

907.2

Soggetti

History - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Eleonora Ramirez de Montalvo is one of the most important historical figures of woman's assistance and education during the seventeenth century. She is the founder of two lay congregations: the Minime Ancille of the Divine Incarnation (1647) and the Minime Ancille of the Holy Trinity (1650). This volume lists and describes in an analytical way the papers produced and preserved by the second of these, also known Montalve alla Quiete, which for over two centuries carried out an intense activity and exerted a considerable influence in Tuscany. The study of this archive provides a unique range of information both on



the economic and political events, and on the relationships maintained by the Montalve with society growing its prestige and heritage. It also offers the opportunity to undertake countless historical research on facts that concern Florentine territory and the rest of Tuscany.