Publications

March 2004
Supplement

Drilling South: Petrobras Evaluates Pecom

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

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

Educators

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

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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December 2004
Article

Old Rules and New Realities: Corporate Tax Policy in a Global Setting

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

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Policy; Business Ventures

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September 2003
Article

Evaluating International Tax Reform

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

Keywords: Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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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 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

Educators

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

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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18 Dec 2019
News

A Geeky Fix From Harvard Business School for Political Gridlock

2004
Working Paper

The Comovement of Returns and Investment Within the Multinational Firm

By: Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley

2006
Chapter

The Comovement of Returns and Investment within International Firms

By: Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Investment Return; Foreign Direct Investment

15 Sep 2016
News

An ailing economy

21 Feb 2017
News

How today’s visa restrictions might impact tomorrow’s America

2005
Working Paper

Constraining Managers Without Owners: Governance of the Not-for-profit Enterprise

By: Mihir A. Desai and Robert J. Yetman