Mihir Desai

Member of Faculty
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Non Resident
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox NR
79 JFK Street
Contact
Phone: 617-495-6693
Email: mdesai@hbs.edu
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Mihir A. Desai is the Rock Center Associate Professor in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management areas and the MBA Class of 1961 Fellow at Harvard Business School. Professor Desai’s research focuses on international corporate and public finance. Within international corporate finance, he has investigated how the globalization of firm operations provides a laboratory for financial decisions making and how multinational firms make critical financial decisions. Within public finance, his research has emphasized the effects of taxation on the export, financing, organizational form, and investment decisions of firms facing multiple tax regimes. His work has also addressed the links between taxation and corporate governance with particular emphasis on the the tax avoidance decisions of firms. He is the author of International Finance: A Casebook which features his many case studies on international corporate financeHe is a Faculty Research Fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Public Economics and Corporate Finance Programs, is the co-director of the NBER’s India program, and his research has been cited in The Economist, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and several other publications.  He received his Ph.D.  and MBA from Harvard, and his  bachelors degree in history and economics from Brown University.

 

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