Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard University; his MBA as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School; and a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Brown University. In 1994, he was a Fulbright Scholar to India. Professor Desai’s areas of expertise include tax policy, international finance, and corporate finance. He has testified several times to Congressional bodies on various tax policy questions. Professor Desai has taught extensively as an award-winning teacher at HBS and at Harvard University. Recently, he created an online finance course through the HBX platform titled Leading with Finance and his most recent book is The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, published in May 2017.