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Entrepreneurial Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Business Administration Mihir A. Desai Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance DJ DiDonna Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Joseph B. Fuller Professor of Management Practice Nori Gerardo Lietz... View Details

02 Feb 2022
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HBS Startup Anise Health Wins Second Place Overall and Best in Feasibility at Google-sponsored Mental Health Care Challenge

March 2006
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International Finance: A Course Overview Note

By: Mihir A. Desai

Describes the International Finance course at Harvard Business School, which argues that the forces of globalization have fundamentally changed the scope and activities of firms, thereby altering the practice of finance within these firms. As a consequence of an... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Ventures; Integration; Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Risk Management; Competitive Advantage; Motivation and Incentives; International Finance; Capital Markets

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Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Krishna G. Palepu, Ahu Bhasin, Mihir A. Desai and Sarayu Srinivasan

A large, lucrative power plant is negotiated for construction/operation by an American power company in India's evolving privatized power sector. The process of incorporating the project is captured in this case. The American company will own and operate the plant in... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Sector; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Agreements and Arrangements; Private Ownership; Projects; Energy Industry; India; United States

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30 May 2013
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Tax Only the Income Earned in the U.S.

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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

Practice Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice, Retired Shai Benjamin Bernstein MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration Mihir A. Desai Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance... View Details

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Faculty - U.S. Competitiveness

Faculty Project Co-chair Michael E. Porter Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Emeritus Project Co-chair Jan W. Rivkin C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration Mihir A. Desai... View Details

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Kothari Desai (MBA 2007), the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation, and the Bajaj Family. The fellowship supports financial aid for MBA students from India through the HBS India Research Center. J Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Family Fellowship This... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Mihir Desai (MBA 1993) This modified case discussion did not require pre-reading. + More Info – Less Info How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their... View Details

2009
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Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

By: Mihir A. Desai

Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be approaching a crossroads. The presumed linkages between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Taxation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; United States

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26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

and benefits and that bundled legislation is valued more than the sum of its parts. Study 2 shows this finding stems from a diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains. Study 3 extends our findings to policies involving costs and benefits of the same type... View Details

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Czech Mate: Expropriation and Investor Protection in a Converging World

By: Mihir A. Desai and Alberto Moel

This paper examines the expropriation of a foreign investor by a local partner and the subsequent resolution of that case through international arbitration in favor of the investor. Despite the investor's 99% interest in joint venture, the local partner managed to... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Capital Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Courts and Trials; Rights; Czech Republic; United States

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June 2009
Journal Article

Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities

By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct investment (FDI). The worldwide tax regime employed by the U.S. potentially distorts this choice by penalizing FDI, relative to FPI, in... View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Portfolio; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Diversification; United States

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (4) Leading with Finance Professor Mihir Desai Build an intuitive understanding of financial principles to better communicate with key stakeholders, drive business performance, and grow... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finance , October 2009). Mihir A. Desai : Winner of the Second Place 2007 Jensen Prize presented by Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Corporate Finance and... View Details

14 Apr 2015
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How crowdsourcing could help simplify America’s tax code

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the steps needed by business and government to restore economic growth and shared prosperity (2016, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, with Jan Rivkin, Mihir Desai, and Manjari Raman). In 2016,... View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting with a final exam. 10-17 weeks, 8-15 hrs/week Apply by January 30 $2,650 Credential Leading with Finance Professor Mihir View Details