Mihir Desai, Harvard Business and Law School professor, joins CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” team to discuss his op-ed in the New York Times criticizing investments from companies like SoftBank into mature businesses.
Why You Should Root for the Uber I.P.O. to Fail→
/
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.
Read MoreHow 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 clearly communicate those decisions to others.
Read MoreWisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
/
The finance industry is widely thought of as being morally suspect. Even those who work in finance tend to compartmentalize between their personal lives and how they get ahead professionally. Mihir Desai argues that not only is this preconception completely false but it’s detrimental to those who work in finance as well as the industry itself.
Read MoreHBS After Hours→
/
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee.
When the sun goes down at the world's leading business school, the faculty speak their minds. Listen in to Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Youngme Moon, and Mihir Desai, as they dish on everything from the NRA, to pornography, to free trade, to how to buy happiness... and many more topics at the intersection of business and culture. It's entertaining, insightful, funny and NO MBA REQUIRED! You can subscribe to HBS After Hours on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. (NOTE: This podcast is currently on hiatus and will return in the fall.)
Read MoreWhy Apple is the Future of Capitalism→
/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.
Read MoreCan Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?→
/
The New Yorker
One discipline reduces behavior to elegantly simple rules; the other wallows in our full, complex particularity. What can they learn from each other? The idea that there is a gap between the world of economics and the wider world is also a theme in “The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return” by the Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai.
Read MoreTax Reform, Round One: Understanding the Real Consequences of the New Tax Law
/
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→
/
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.
Read MoreHow to succeed in finance...by reading Jane Austen→
/
Business News Network
Mihir A. Desai, Mizuho Financial Group's professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a professor of law at Harvard Law School, joins BNN to discuss his new book: "The Wisdom of Finance." The book compares the key themes of finance to philosophers, authors and essayists, in an effort to make finance easier to learn.
Read More
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.