Mihir A. Desai
Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance,
Harvard Business School
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Video & Podcast
Teaching Delivers Immediate Returns - HBS Video
Finance can be very intimidating. Mihir Desai wants to make it super-intuitive for everyone.
Corporate Inversions: Tax Dodge, or Symptom of the Tax Code? - Podcast
Corporate inversions are transactions, such as mergers or acquisitions, that involve a U.S. and foreign headquartered firm and result in the newly formed firm being headquartered outside the U.S. As a result, it can legally lower its U.S. taxes and enjoy parity with its foreign based competitors. Noting the resulting erosion to the U.S. tax base, critics argue that absent Congressional action the U.S. Treasury has a responsibility to fully utilize its existing authorities to combat this practice. But others are concerned that attempting to do so without addressing the underlying problems with the U.S. tax code will create even greater harm to the U.S. economy. Stephen Shay, Senior Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School and until recently the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Tax Affairs and Mihir Desai, who holds appointments at both the Harvard Business School and Law School, provided perspectives from legal and economic vantage points.
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Incentives to Invert and the Market for Foreign Takeovers
On January 23, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the International Tax Policy Forum co-hosted a conference examining the history, causes, and consequences of corporate inversions, the policy response in the United Kingdom, and what actions the U.S. should take.
Mihir Desai's presentation begins at 20:36. Discussion of Bird Papers on Taxation and M&A.
Wisconsin Public Radio: Burger King Becomes the Latest US Company Using Tax Inversion
WPR 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.
Harvard Business Review Podcast: How 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.
BioCentury: Taxing 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?
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Tesimony: Corporate Tax Reform
Business Insights
Business Insights were produced to be included in Harvard ManageMentor. Harvard ManageMentor is an online learning tool that prepares business people to become better managers. It features 40 self-paced modules that address the full spectrum of issues that managers face. Take a look at Mihir Desai's segments below:
One Harvard - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
One Harvard is a compilation of stories illustrating the enhanced value and powerful outcomes that result from multi-School collaborations across the University, and cross-disciplinary approaches to teaching, learning, and research.
Mihir Desai's segment begins at 8:40 and he discusses his undergraduate course, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Harvard Business Publishing: Why Study Finance?
The 2011 Mortimer Caplin Conference on the World Economy
How does globalization intersect with America’s ability to manage its fiscal future? Do concerns over global competitiveness hurt or hinder efforts directed towards tax reform? The Fourth Annual Mortimer Caplin Conference on the World Economy, sponsored by the Miller Center, was devoted to an informed and intelligent discussion of these questions. Keeping with our tradition, this conference brought together senior government officials along with the best thinkers from the academy and the private sector to discuss, deliberate and debate a number of questions related to the tax reform, deficit control and economic competitiveness in the international economy. Watch Mihir Desai's panel segments below.
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Superpower in Decline or America Resurgent? Prospects for the U.S. in the Global Economy
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Striking the Balance: Tax Reform, Deficit Reduction, and Global Economic Power
Artist as Entrepreneur: A Conversation with Wynton Marsalis
The Harvard i-lab hosted a conversation entitled "Artist as Entrepreneur" with Wynton Marsalis, and HBS professors Nancy Koehn, Rohit Deshpande, and Mukti Khaire, moderated by Mihir Desai on February 7, 2012.
Keynote Speech at the Financial Times Investing in a Sustainable Future Conference
The Financial Times' Investing in a Sustainable Future conference focuses on what the leaders of some of the world's largest multinational corporations are doing to improve their organizations' ability to continue to profit and grow.
Watch Mihir Desai's Keynote Speech here.
India in the Global Economy: The Next Fifteen Years
Presented by the Columbia University Program on Indian Economic Policies, academic experts discuss India place in the global economy, and the panel attempts to project the next fifteen years for the country. This video features a panel discussion moderated by Arun Jaitley and features Rakesh Mohan, N. K. Singh, Lord Meghnad Desai, and Mihir Desai.
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Tax Policies that Might Work
Professor Mihir Desai of Harvard Business School, Professor Michael Graetz of Columbia Law School, and Richman Center Senior Fellow Andrew Stern discuss tax policies that may boost economic growth and increase tax revenues as part of a Richman Center public lecture on what tax policies we should consider.
Incentive Bubble - Harvard Business Review Podcast
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers and high-powered incentive contracts for investors have dramatically altered the nature and level of incentives and relative rewards in our society, on both sides of the capital market.
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