Mihir A. Desai – Mihir Desai on Demystifying Finance

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Mihir A. Desai – Mihir Desai on Demystifying Finance

Finance is everywhere. We can see it in our retirement assets, as well as our investments in education and housing. Yet, finance is still intimidating to many intelligent people. For most people, key concepts such as insurance, risk, value, and mergers are still a mystery. on Main Street, not Wall Street.

We could all benefit from having a better understanding of markets and their workings, as was evident in the 2008 financial crisis. Too often, finance is taught in jargon, technical or dry ways.-filled.

Enter Mihir Desai. He is a Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School professor. on A mission to restore the link between finance and the humanities. His book, The Wisdom of FinanceProfessor. : Discovering Humanity In A World of Risk and Return. Desai This course examines finance from a humanities viewpoint. In this course, he’ll teach you the most important financial concepts using stories from books like Pride and Prejudice, the Maltese Falcon and the Bible.

This is not an online course on personal finance.

Instead, it will be vivid and compelling.-An overview of the most important ideas in finance. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to converse fluently about key financial concepts, unpack financial stories in the news, and recognize financial ideas as they show up in everyday life. You’ll to realize that, rather than being intimidating, the core practices of finance are all around us and have been ingrained in our stories for centuries.

To find the direct link, please visit the instructor’s website and bio. MihirHarvard Course.

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Mihir A. Desai
Mihir A. Desai

Mihir A. Desai Mizuho Financial Group is Professor of Finance Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School Professor of Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from Harvard University, a MBA as a Baker Scholar and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Economics from Brown University. He was a Fulbright Scholar to India in 1994.

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Professor DesaiHis expertise includes tax policy, international finance and corporate finance. His research has focused on the design of tax policies in a globalized environment, the link between corporate governance, taxation, as well as the internal capital markets for multinational companies. He is a Research Assistant in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Public Economics and Corporate Economics. Finance Programs and served with co-Director of NBER’s India program. He has testified to Congress numerous times. on various tax policy questions.

Professor Desai He has been awarded the prestigious Teaching Excellence Award-HBS was the winner of the award for best teacher and Harvard University. He taught undergraduates public economics and entrepreneurial, finance and international finance to MBA executives and students, as well as tax law and policy to students. Recent research has been done by Professor Desai A course on finance online through the HBX platform was created titled Leading with Finance. His latest book is The Wisdom of FinancePublished May 2017, titled : Discovering Humanity In The World of Risk and Return

His professional experiences include working at CS First Boston, McKinsey & Co., and advising a number of firms and governmental organizations.

Course Curriculum

1. Introduction to the Course

Pre-Course Survey

1. Welcoming to the Course Mihir Desai (1:32)

2. Why is it important to understand Finance? (1:27)

3. Exercise: Introduce Yourself

4. Resource: Course Workbook

2. Insurance and Randomness Finance

5. Understanding Insurance (2.29)

6. Insurance: A Financial Tool for Chaos (1:38)

7. Two branches of Finance: Asset Pricing & Corporate Finance (1:54)

Quiz 1: Identify the branches of Finance

8. Exercise: Analyze Insurance and Randomness in Stories

3. Asset Pricing

9. Assessing Options: Pride & Prejudice (1.45)

10. Stock Options Offer More Opportunities (2:50).

Quiz 2: What is Optionality?

11. Asset Pricing and Diversification in order to Reduce Risk (1.37)

12. Types of Financial Assets, Personal Relationships (3.43)

Quiz 3: What Types of Betas Are There?

13. The Mandat to Create Value: Parable Of Talents (3:44).

14. What is Asset Valuation? (4:45)

Quiz 4: Calculating Present Value

15. Exercise: Analyze, illustrate and discuss the different aspects of Asset Pricing

4. Corporate Finance

16. What is the principal?-Agent Problem? (5:05)

17. What does the Principal do?-What Does Agent Problem Mean for Your Daily Life? (2:18)

Quiz 5 – Identifying Principals & Agents

18. Why should companies merge? (3:02)

19. What are Mergers like Marriages and why do they fail? (4:48)

Quiz 6 – Ideal conditions for a Merger

20. Why is leverage important? Finance What is the difference between Life and Death? (5:58)

21. What are the Risks of Leverage and Debt? (4:24)

22. Exercise: Identify key elements of Corporate Finance In stories

5. The Future of Finance

23. Rediscovering Humanity in Finance (2:00)

24. Why Social Entrepreneurs Should Understand Finance? (3:27)

25. Exercise: Identify your core human needs. Finance Serves

26. About +Acumen

27. Complete the Post-Satisfaction Survey

6. Bonus Lecture: An Updated Interview Mihir on His latest book “How Finance Works”

28. Interview Bonus Mihir Desai

Most Frequently Asked Questions

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When does the course begin and finish?
You can take the course now, and it never ends! It is self-evident.-Online course that can be paced at your own pace – you choose when you start and when you end.
What length of access do I have to the course?
How does lifetime access sound to you? You have unlimited access to the course after enrolling – on any device you own.
What if I am not satisfied with the course?
We wouldn’t want to make you unhappy. We will refund your entire purchase if you are not satisfied within the first 30 days.
What if I need additional help?
Please email [email protected] and we’ll get back to you!

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