Mihir A. Desai
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Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Professor Desai's areas of expertise include tax policy, international finance, and corporate finance.  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 book The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in May 2017. Professor Desai has taught extensively as an award-winning teacher at HBS and at Harvard University.  He built a second-year elective on International Financial Management at HBS and his cases on international finance are collected in a casebook published by John Wiley.  Since 1999, he has co-taught Public Economics (EC 1410) at Harvard College and also created the first course for undergraduates at HBS in 2011. Since 2014, Professor Desai has taught the introductory tax law course at HLS. Most recently, Professor Desai has been active in delivering various executive education programs at HBS, including the General Managers Program (GMP), on campus and around the world.  Recently, Professor Desai created an online finance course through the HBX platform titled Leading with Finance. His professional experiences include working at CS First Boston (1989-1991), McKinsey & Co. (1992), and advising a number of firms and governmental organizations.
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