How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers

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The HBR guide to thinking smart about the numbers Oct, 2016 Video Finance, Investing and Accounting Read time: If you're not a numbers person, finance may seem intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to communicate those decisions with others. Mihir Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. An award-winning teacher and a leading scholar of corporate finance and tax policy, professor Desai has been educating varied student populations for nearly twenty years, including senior executives from around the world, MBA students, undergraduates, and lawyers. He’s the author of How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers (HBR Press, 2019) and other business books. Keywords: behavioural economics behavioural science consumer behaviour decision making financial markets investing psychology value creation

The HBR guide to thinking smart about the numbers

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If you're not a numbers person, finance may seem intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to communicate those decisions with others.

Mihir Desai

Mihir Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. An award-winning teacher and a leading scholar of corporate finance and tax policy, professor Desai has been educating varied student populations for nearly twenty years, including senior executives from around the world, MBA students, undergraduates, and lawyers. He’s the author of How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers (HBR Press, 2019) and other business books.

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The HBR guide to thinking smart about the numbers

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