This is episode number 518 with Harvard professor, Me Here Decide.

Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete

turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message

to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today.

Now let the class begin.

Dave Ramsey said you must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever

control you. Oh my friends we've got another professor in the house. His name is Me Here Decide

and he's a professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a professor of law at Harvard

law school. He received his PhD 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. One of the smartest guys around on this topic and professor

decides area of expertise includes tax policy, international finance and corporate finance.

His research has been cited in the economist business week the New York Times and several other

major publications and he has testified several times to congressional bodies including most recently

the Senate Finance Committee on Corporate Tax Reform and Inversions. If your head is hurting

already from all this language and lingo and just the idea of finance in general then welcome to

the show because this has always been a challenging concept for me. Understanding finance, economy,

things like that, it's always been hard to understand and I didn't really get it and I

shied away from these conversations earlier in my life even in my early 20s and in college just

because it just seemed like it was hard work to understand how money works, why we use money,

how to leverage money, how to make money, how to save money, how to invest money, all these things.

Some of the big things we talk about are the most confusing things regarding finance and why we're

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