by Mihir Desai - Publications - Faculty & Research

Describes a core module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module focuses on how firms identify, measure, and manage currency exposures. The cases first introduce students to foreign exchange exposures and the tools used to manage... View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Corporate Finance

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March 2006
Module Note

Financing Decisions within the Firm

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Describes a core module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module focuses on the financial and managerial issues that confront managers who make financial decisions within multinational firms: how subsidiaries should be financed and... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; International Finance; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Framework; Performance Evaluation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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January 2006
Teaching Note

Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Investment Funds; Auto Industry

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December 2005
Teaching Note

Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Globalization

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April 2005
Supplement

Continuing Transformation of Asahi Glass, The: Implementing EVA (CW)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Yanjun Wang

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March 2004
Supplement

Drilling South: Petrobras Evaluates Pecom

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

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September 2003
Case

Growing Up in China: The Financing of BabyCare Ltd.

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

The CFO of this infant nutritional products company must choose among competing financing offers. The interplay of Chinese legal and customs restrictions and venture capitalists' bargaining techniques challenge the CFO to navigate a tricky negotiation and to devise a... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Working Capital; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; China

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November 2001
Teaching Note

Laura Martin: Real Options and the Cable Industry TN

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

Teaching Note for (9-201-004). View Details

Keywords: Communications Industry

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winter 2006
Article

Corporate Social Responsibility and Taxation: The Missing Link

By: Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Taxation

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2007
Working Paper

Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets

By: Pol Antras, Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley

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February 2006
Article

Earnings Manipulation, Pension Assumptions, and Managerial Investment Decisions

By: Daniel B. Bergstresser, Mihir A. Desai and Joshua Rauh

Keywords: Profit; Compensation and Benefits; Management; Investment; Decision Making

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20 Oct 2022
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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

By: Adi Ignatius, Lynn Paine, Mihir Desai and Carola Frydman

A roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today.

The idea that maximizing shareholder value takes legal and practical precedence above all else first came to prominence in the 1970s. The... View Details

Keywords: Shareholder Value Maximization; Business and Shareholder Relations

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17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

identified and classified in terms of specifying, allocating, and utilizing capacity. The first two categories reflect challenges faced by infrastructure providers; the last category, challenges faced by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne