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Professor Amar Bhidé, the Laurence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University, is writing a book on the financial crisis. His book, The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World, (Princeton University Press 2008) won the Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Business, Finance, and Management, and was in the “Best of 2008” lists of the Economist, BusinessWeek and Barrons. The author of The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (Oxford 2000), and Of Politics and Economic Reality (Basic Books 1984), Professor Bhidé been studying entrepreneurship for more than twenty years. He has written extensively for the Harvard Business Review and for the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The LA Times. Professor Bhidé served on the faculties of Harvard Business School (from 1988 to 2000) and the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. A former Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and proprietary trader at E.F. Hutton, Professor Bhidé served on the staff of the Brady Commission which investigated the 1987stock market crash. He earned a DBA (1988) and an MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar (1979) from Harvard. He received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1977.