Mihir A. Desai
Finance professor and author
Mihir A. Desai is a Harvard professor of finance and law whose expertise covers tax policy, international finance and corporate finance. He wrote The Wisdom of Finance.
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Born in India, India
About Mihir A. Desai
Mihir A. Desai is an Indian-American economist who teaches at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. He is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at the business school. His research covers how tax policy should be designed for a global economy, how corporate governance connects to taxation, and how multinational companies move capital internally. He studied history and economics at Brown University, earned an MBA at Harvard Business School in 1993, and completed a PhD in political economy at Harvard in 1998. His earlier jobs included CS First Boston and McKinsey & Co., and he has advised firms and government organizations. He has taught at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and Harvard College, and he created the online course Leading with Finance. His book The Wisdom of Finance carries the subtitle Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.