Tag: Mihir Desai

  • Nation & World

    Finance meets humanities — really

    Economist Mihir Desai sets aside his usual academic work in a new book in which he uses plain language and stories drawn from literature and art to explain the basic principles of finance and show how deeply they are rooted in the humanities.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    And now: President CEO

    Faculty at Harvard Business School discuss how Donald Trump’s experience as a businessman may inform his approach to the U.S. presidency.

    20 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Getting a handle on inversion

    Mihir Desai spoke with the Gazette about the controversy surrounding tax inversion.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Notes on music’s lessons

    At Harvard as part of an ongoing lecture and performance series, musician and composer Wynton Marsalis met with the Harvard community for two far-reaching discussions in which music and the arts played seminal roles.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Learning about research

    Nearly 150 Harvard undergraduates spent 10 weeks last summer learning the nuts and bolts of academic research — from ethnography to techniques for culturing living tissue — with faculty in three immersive programs.

    8 minutes