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Mihir A. Desai
Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- News
‘The Wisdom of Finance’, by Mihir Desai
- 15 Dec 2017
- News
Mihir Desai explains the Wisdom of Finance
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
parallel universes. Large, unexplained gaps—more than $100 billion—have developed between the profits reported to capital markets and to tax authorities. These discrepancies can no longer be explained by accepted differences between the... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Professor Mihir Desai goes to Capitol Hill
- 30 May 2017
- News
Harvard’s Mihir Desai on New Book, ’The Wisdom of Finance’
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
countries no longer maintain such regimes and b) a corporate tax rate that stands well above rates employed by other OECD countries. From a firm point of view, the transactions highlight a) the increased mobility of activity in today's... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 16 Oct 2023
- Podcast
Mihir Desai on Apple's Powerful Financial Model
In this debut episode of The Parlor Room, host and Harvard Business School Online Creative Director Chris Linnane sits down with HBS Professor Mihir Desai to discuss how Apple's financial model contributes to its success and illustrates a critical lesson about risk... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
holdings--estimates of the amount held by US public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess of $20 billion--are thought to result from the absence of investment... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
two reasons. First, they are systematically lower than the returns of American outbound FDI. By way of example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 24 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 03 Dec 2021
- News
Professor Mihir Desai: Resilient
- 08 Nov 2021
- Video
Professor Mihir Desai: Resilient
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
insight was that the fair solution could be determined by creating uncertainty about the position the person choosing the outcome would find him- or herself in. In short, the person cutting the cake has to decide the size of the slices... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
Publicly reporting taxes paid is a sensible first step in restoring some sanity to these parallel universes. With luck, these strange bedfellows will be productive ones as well. — Mihir A. Desai is the Rock... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
prod corporations to put some of their remarkable cash hoards to productive use. Estimates of the cash held by U.S. public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess... View Details