Amar Bhidé is the Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University. A member of Columbia’s Center on Capitalism and Society, he spearheaded the launch of its eponymous journal, Capitalism and Society (published by the Berkeley Electronic Press) which he now edits (with Prof. Edmund Phelps). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He 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, he served on the staff of the Brady Commission which investigated the stock market crash. His books include The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (Oxford 2000) and he is currently completing a new one, Prospering Together: The Globalization of Innovation.