Professor of Finance and Law
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.
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.
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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 MoreThe 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 MoreThe 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 MoreHarvard 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 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 MoreBusiness 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 MoreThe Boston Globe
In his new book “The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return,", Harvard business professor Mihir Desai has tried to give finance a beating heart, to humanize it by viewing it through the lenses of literature, art, philosophy, music, movies, and TV.
Read MoreBloomberg Radio
GUEST: Mihir Desai, Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, on his new book, "THE WISDOM OF FINANCE: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return."
Forbes
Desai’s new book is unlike almost any business book you’ve ever read, with eight chapters packed with stories from English and American literature explaining the sometimes esoteric concepts of risk management in simple everyday language and showing how they apply to every aspect of our lives.
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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.
Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
