Higgs scalars may be (pseudo-) Goldstone particles related to a spontaneous breakdown of a global symmetry which contains grand unified gauge group as a subgroup. This hypothesis gives severe constraint on possible form of Higgs mass terms in a framework of supersymmetric grand unified theories coupled to N=1 supergravity.
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Inoue et al. (1986) studied this question.