TY - BOOK AU - Damodaran,Aswath TI - Narrative and numbers: the value of stories in business SN - 9789353024536 ( paper) AV - H61.295 .D36 2017 U1 - 659.2 DAM 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New York PB - Columbia Business School Publishing KW - Narrative inquiry (Research method) KW - Business communication KW - Feedback (Psychology) KW - Corporations KW - Valuation N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index; Preface -- A tale of two tribes -- Tell me a story -- The elements of storytelling -- The power of numbers -- Number-crunching tools -- Building a narrative -- Test driving a narrative -- From narratives to numbers -- Numbers to value -- Improving and modifying your narrative : the feedback loop -- Narrative alterations : the real world intrudes -- News and narratives -- Go big : the macro story -- The corporate life cycle -- The managerial challenge -- The end game -- Index ER -