The New York Times
The fate of Uber’s stock is a verdict on the winner-take-all venture capital model that dominates Silicon Valley.
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The New York Times
With Apple Inc. now exceeding $1 trillion in market capitalization, it’s tempting to understand this moment in terms of the dominance of all-too-large companies and technology in our lives.
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Harvard Magazine
The Trump Administration’s successful efforts at tax legislation stand out as the primary achievement of its first year. But the hurried, largely furtive drafting, and rush to passage at the end of 2017, have helped obscure the new tax regime’s real impact.
Read MoreThe Trouble with Optionality→
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The Harvard Crimson
The language of finance can be insidious. Words like leverage and concepts like diversification can morph from narrow financial terms into much more general ways of understanding the world. For students that go into finance or business, the idea of “optionality” is particularly pliable—and taken too far, it can be downright dangerous.
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Business Insider
As I researched my book, "The Wisdom of Finance," I was surprised to uncover a close correspondence between the central ideas of finance and the questions that preoccupy many humanists.
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Harvard Business Review
MBAs Shouldn’t Have to Apologize for Going into Finance, but They Should Commit to Fixing It
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Finance meets humanities — really→
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Harvard Gazette
Author Mihir Desai explains how the two are linked in deep and meaningful ways.
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PBS Newshour Column
An odd dictum that likens us to insurance companies may serve us well as we struggle to find the best path forward in the health insurance debate, writes Mihir Desai, author of “The Wisdom of Finance.”
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/by Nicole Sinclair in Yahoo Finance
Corporate tax reform may be the issue with the highest degree of consensus among Republicans and Democrats. But when it comes to most issues regarding personal taxes, it’s been hard for those on both sides of the aisle to agree.
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Mihir Desai's academic publications have appeared in leading economics, finance, and law journals. His work has emphasized the appropriate design of tax policy in a globalized setting, the links between corporate governance and taxation, and the internal capital markets of multinational firms. His research has been cited in The Economist, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and several other publications.