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  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Mihir Desai and Michael Porter have pointed out, the United States has the highest corporate tax rate and the most complex tax code in the world. That combination undermines the growth of the economy and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

  Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber Abstract—There is a growing body of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

forthcoming Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2017
  • News

Business Book of the Year 2017 — the longlist

  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

types of unique challenges do the managers and companies in your cases face? Do you have a sense of how these might be different from those highlighted by cases produced at the other Global Initiative Research Centers? A: The cases I am... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

indicate that this is not the case. In fact, a recent working paper I have written with (Harvard Business School professors) Mihir Desai and James R. Hines Jr. concludes that expansions abroad are associated... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 16 May 2017
  • News

Facing the Board

It may have been a year—or 50—since the six dozen Harvard Business School alumni gathered in an Aldrich Hall classroom Monday morning had dug into a case study. However, once they got over the initial fear of being cold called by... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

vantage point, not in sight here. I don’t see it. And I’m most troubled by that. Push and pull marketing to build public support John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Business Economics - Doctoral

B. Antill Brian K. Baik Malcolm P. Baker John Beshears Alberto F. Cavallo Alex Chan Katherine B. Coffman Lauren H. Cohen Shawn A. Cole Leemore S. Dafny Mihir A. View Details
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested View Details
  • Web

Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

Administration Shawn A. Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Mihir A. Desai Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance John... View Details
  • Web

U.S. Competitiveness

Dec 2019 Survey A Recovery Squandered By: Michael E. Porter , Jan W. Rivkin , Mihir A. Desai , Katherine M. Gehl , William R. Kerr , with Manjari Raman In 2019, HBS faculty... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

by Desai in mid-2017. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-096 Making Markets Explains how to identify and capitalize on marketplace design... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

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

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
How should a multinational firm manage foreign exchange exposures? Examines transactional and translational exposures and alternative responses to these exposures by analyzing two specific hedging decisions by General Motors. Describes General Motors' corporate hedging... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Expansion; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Auto Industry
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Entrepreneurial Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Jeffrey J. Bussgang Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Frank V. Cespedes MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Lauren H. Cohen L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration Zoe B. Cullen Assistant Professor of Business Administration... View Details
  • June 2014
  • Case

Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer
By the end of 2013, Apple had $137 billion dollars in cash and marketable securities. This case explores how companies can generate such large amounts of cash and how and if they should distribute it to shareholders, especially in the face of shareholder pressure. In... View Details
Keywords: Apple; Steve Jobs; Forecast; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Shareholder Activism; Share Repurchase; Dividends; Financial Ratios; Preferred Shares; Cash Distribution; Corporate Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Republic of Ireland
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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

Lecturer of Business Administration Mitchell B. Weiss Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice Chair, MBA Required Curriculum Shai Benjamin Bernstein MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration Mihir View Details
  • March 2006
  • Course Overview Note

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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