Business Insights: Look Beyond Obvious Risks
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Make sure your business plan takes the unexpected into account.
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Business Insights: Tackle Finance with Curiosity
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Don’t let misconceptions about finance derail you from becoming a truly great manager.
Read MoreBusiness Insights: The (Im)precision of Finance
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The beauty of finance is that it allows you to approach business decisions with economic rigor.
Read MoreBurger King Becomes the Latest US Company Using Tax Inversion
/Wisconsin Public Radio speaks with a Harvard Law Professor Mihir Desai who recently testified to the Senate Finance Committee on the issue of corporate tax inversions. Burger King is the latest US corporation who is leaving the US and taking its tax dollars with it. They'll discuss the problem and possible solutions.
Read MoreTaxing Innovation - Inversion or Evasion?
/Harvard's Dr. Mihir Desai, ISI Group's Terry Haines, and Joshua Smith, Economic Policy Institute analyst, debate tax inversion: will it lead to comprehensive reform or unintended consequences from a short-term fix?
Read MoreHow to Stop Corporate Inversions
/Bill George and Mihir Desai, professors at Harvard Business School, explain why our corporate tax code is driving American business overseas.
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U.S. Senate Finance Committee Testimony: Corporate Tax Reform
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Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School professor, shares his thoughts on corporate tax reform ahead of Tuesday morning's Senate hearing on CNBC.
Read MoreFinancial Policy at Apple, 2013→
/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 the process, students are asked to undertake fundamental financial analyses, including ratio analysis, a financial forecast, and a cash distribution analysis.
Read MoreInnocents Abroad: Currencies and Stock Returns→
/(w/ K. Luchs and M. Veblen) HBS Case 204-141.
What do international stocks contribute to the portfolio of a U.S. investor?
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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.