The Launch Pad presents

A lecture by Distinguished Fellow Dr. Amar Bhidé
On his forthcoming book
A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy

Amar Bhidé, previously the Laurence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University, has just completed A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press in September. His 2008 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), Bhidé been studying entrepreneurship for more than twenty years.

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 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 proprietary trader 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.

Date:
Thursday April 8, 2010
Reception 6:00pm
Lecture 7:00pm

Location:
Shoma Hall - International Building
School of Communication
University of Miami
5100 Brunson Drive
Room 3053
Coral Gables, FL 33146

For more information or to register for the event, please call 305.284.2789 or e-mail thelaunchpad@miami.edu