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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
- 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
- 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
- 24 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
along partisan lines, from overhauling the US corporate tax to punishing companies who choose to move elsewhere. On July 22, 2014, Mihir A. Desai, Miuzho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, testified before... View Details
- 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
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 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. View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
and provide a privately directed, revenue-neutral stimulus that could eclipse the effects of any potential stimulus that could emerge from Washington today. — Mihir A. Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
average, transferring wealth from abroad to the United States. — Mihir A. Desai is a professor at HBS and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details
- 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
- 03 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Tax Policy and the Efficiency of US Direct Investment Abroad
- 06 Mar 2012
- News
Why finance heads shouldn't be judged by the market
- 29 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Trade Credit and Taxes
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one finding from work done View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
As waves of globalization wash across the business world, tremendous new opportunities for financing and investment present themselves to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, HBS professor Mihir A. View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
Corporations have traditionally considered taxes a painful but necessary cost of doing business. But this view has changed, says Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai. With the advent of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen