TIE- Houston
Chapter
presents
TiE
Amar Bhidé
Topic:
The
Venturesome Economy:
How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
6:00 pm - Networking & Cash Bar
6:30 pm - Buffet Style Dinner
7:00 pm - Amar Bhide
The Westin
Galleria Hotel
24th Floor Monarch Room
(713) 960-8100
Admission – $40 Member
$55 Non-Member
$100 - Yearly Membership
Amar Bhidé is Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia
University and has been studying entrepreneurship for about twenty years. He
has just completed his latest book, The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation
Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World, scheduled for publication in
September 2008 by the Princeton University Press. His
previous
book was The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (Oxford 2000).
Bhidé is a Member of the Center on Capitalism and Society and spearheaded
the launch of its eponymous journal, Capitalism and Society (published by
the Berkeley Electronic Press) which he now edits (with Nobel Laureate Prof.
Edmund Phelps). He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
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 Vice President at E.F. Hutton,
Bhidé served on the staff of the Brady Commission which investigated the
stock market crash. Bhidé 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.
Bhidé has several publications in the areas of entrepreneurship, strategy,
contracting, and firm governance. His eight Harvard Business Review articles
include "Efficient Markets, Deficient Governance," "How entrepreneurs craft
strategies that work," "Bootstrap Finance: the Art of Start-ups," and
"Hustle as Strategy." His work on governance and contracting includes "The
Hidden Costs of Stock Market Liquidity" in the Journal of Financial
Economics and articles in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. Other
publications include Of Politics and Economic Reality (Basic Books: 1984)
and numerous articles in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and
The LA Times.
His new book will be available, through Brazos Book Store
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