Publications

June 2001
Teaching Note

Valuing Project Achieve TN

Teaching Note for (9-201-080). View Details

January 2001
Case

Valuing Project Achieve

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Project Achieve is a start-up providing information management solutions for schools. Its founders see a need for software both to manage the volumes of information necessary to administer a school and to connect parents, teachers, and students in a more effective way.... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Valuation; Venture Capital; Cost of Capital; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction

2001
Article

Exchange Rates and Tax-Based Promotion

By: M. A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Taxation

2001
Article

The Uneasy Marriage of Export Incentives and the Income Tax

By: M. A. Desai

Keywords: Taxation; Motivation and Incentives

October 2000
Supplement

Financing of Project Achieve, The, (A)

2000
Working Paper

The Uneasy Marriage of Export Incentives and the Income Tax

By: Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

August 2000 (Revised July 2001)
Case

Laura Martin: Real Options and the Cable Industry

By: Mihir A. Desai and Peter Tufano

CSFB equity research analyst Laura Martin publishes a report on valuing Cox Communications that introduces an innovative approach to valuation. She contends that EBITDA multiple analysis, typical for the cable industry, is flawed because it overlooks the value of the... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Innovation and Invention; Telecommunications Industry

April 2000
Case

Financing of Project Achieve, The (A)

An entrepreneur is forced to analyze the tradeoffs between different equity providers through a detailed analysis of venture financing terms and cash flow forecasts. The founder of a Web-based IMS for schools must negotiate a term sheet, determine funding needs, value... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Equity; Negotiation Deal; Valuation

April 2000
Case

Financing of Project Achieve, The (B)

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Equity; Negotiation Deal; Valuation

1999
Chapter

Excess Capital Flows and the Burden of Inflation in Open Economies

By: M. A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Capital; International Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Economic Systems

March 1999
Article

'Basket' Cases: Tax Incentives and International Joint Venture Participation by American Multinational Firms

By: Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Taxation; Motivation and Incentives; Joint Ventures; Global Range; Business Ventures

1999
Article

Are We Racing to the Bottom? Evidence on the Dynamics of International Tax Competition

By: M. A. Desai

Keywords: Taxation; Competition

August 24, 1996
Article

The End of Everything

May 1996 (Revised July 1998)
Case

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

January 1995 (Revised May 1996)
Teaching Note

Coca-Cola Harmless Warrants TN

By: Scott P. Mason and Mihir A. Desai

Teaching Note for (9-295-007). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

July 1994 (Revised October 1995)
Case

Coca-Cola Harmless Warrants

By: Scott P. Mason and Mihir A. Desai

Underscores the arbitrage implicit in the pricing of a complex unit of debt and warrants issued by the Coca-Cola Co. View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Price; Innovation and Invention; Food and Beverage Industry

July 1994 (Revised September 1995)
Case

Cougars

By: Scott P. Mason and Mihir A. Desai

Provides an introduction to zero coupon bonds and stripping coupon bonds. Concerns the relationship between the spot curve, the strip curve, and the coupon curve. View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Relationships