How Finance Works
by Mihir Desai, Mihir A. Desai · first published 2019
100% recommend
If you're not a numbers person, then balance sheets and financial jargon can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, it's crucial that you are able to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to others. In How Finance Works, Mihir Desai--a professor at Harvard Business School and author of the widely praised book The Wisdom of Finance--guides you into the complex but endlessly fascinating world of finance and demystifies it in the process. Through entertaining stories, interactive exercises, full-col
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I can’t recommend How Finance Works by Mihir Desai enough. There are a few cool things about it: 1. You get the feeling that the author has developed a deep sense of how learning works, and is using the same teaching methods in the book…
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