by Mihir Desai - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Oct 2018
News

Is Retail Dying? Plus, How Are Companies Spending their Tax Cuts?

31 Mar 2021
News

Biden Tax Plan Challenges G.O.P. Formula for Economic Growth

21 Dec 2017
News

In Tax Overhaul, Trump Tries to Defy the Economic Odds

07 Nov 2018
News

Can Netflix Keep Winning? And Why People Are Fleeing Latin America

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

information about inventors' immigration status or ethnicities, they do contain the inventors' names. By utilizing name-matching software, the researchers could infer the ethnicity of inventors at any given firm. An inventor named Chang... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

20 Jul 2018
News

Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?

20 Oct 2022
News

4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

individualized) levels." Peter Lee added "The real issue is what you consider to be performance Performance is all about quality-quality of effort as well as results." Gerald Nanninga suggested that "let's solve the problem View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 May 2017
News

What Jane Austen can teach us about risk management

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

25 May 2017
News

Why Wall Street Went Astray: Eight Ways To Humanize Finance

01 Jan 2004
News

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

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

How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers

If you're not a numbers person, then balance sheets and financial jargon can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, it's crucial that you are able to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to... View Details

18 Oct 2020
News

Tax Increase for Corporations Looks More Likely as Election Nears

15 Sep 2017
News

How human is the world of risk and return?

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

investment, and how do corporations keep their bearings in a bureaucratic maze of regulations? Does the promise of payoff exceed the challenges of doing business in countries that are in the midst of reform? Those questions were considered View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

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

approach to the presidency. Their insights follow. Real estate rarely a zero-sum game John D. Macomber, Senior lecturer of business administration You have to start by distinguishing between a branding operation that’s supported View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In parallel, similar vulnerabilities... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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