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Amar Bhide

Amar Bhide

Visiting Professor of Business Administration

Visiting Professor of Business Administration

Amar Bhidé will teach a new elective course, Lessons from Transformational Medical Advances. He received a B. Tech from the IIT Bombay in 1977, and an MBA (with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar) in 1979 and a DBA in 1988 from Harvard Business School. Bhidé taught in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS from 1988 to 2000, when he (re)developed an elective course that later became ‘The Entrepreneurial Manager’ in the Required Curriculum. He has also been the Lawrence Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia and a Visiting Associate Professor of Business at Chicago University. Before his academic career, he worked at McKinsey & Company and as a proprietary trader at E.F. Hutton. He is a founding member of the Center on Capitalism and Society, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the board of  SMIT, the largest investment trust in the UK.
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Bhidé is visiting from the Fletcher School at Tufts (where he holds the Thomas Schmidheiny Professorship) to teach a new elective course, ‘Lessons from Transformational Medical Advances,’ at the Harvard Business School in Spring 2021. The elective draws on his ongoing research on the nature and development of practical knowledge (including medical advances).

Previously the Laurence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University, Bhidé has has been studying innovation and entrepreneurship for more than thirty years. He served on the faculties of Harvard Business School (from 1988 to 2000) and the University of Chicago’s Booth 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 of 1987.

Bhidé is a founding member of the Center on Capitalism and Society and spearheaded the launch of its journal, Capitalism and Society in 2005 which he edited (with Prof. Edmund Phelps) until 2017. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He was appointed to a non-executive directorship of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (an FTSE 100 company that invests in high tech companies mainly in the US and China) in May 2020.

His 2008 book, The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World, (Princeton University Press) 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. Bhidé’s 2000 book, The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (Oxford University Press) has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Tibetan. He is also author of A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy (Oxford 2010) and Of Politics and Economic Reality (Basic Books 1984).

His ten Harvard Business Review articles — the first published in 1982 — include “Hustle as Strategy” (1086), “Bootstrap Finance: the Art of Start-ups (1992),””How entrepreneurs craft strategies that work (1994),” and “The Judgment Deficit” (2010). His work on financial markets and governance includes “The Hidden Costs of Stock Market Liquidity” in the Journal of Financial Economics. He has written numerous articles, dating back to 1981, in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, Quartz, Project Syndicate, Bloomberg Opinion, POLITICO Europe, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and The LA Times.

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.

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Featured Work Publications
Symmetric Ignorance: The Cost of Anonymous Lemons
Making Economics More Useful (Applied Economics, 2020)
A Note on Practical knowledge (2020)
Hustle As Strategy (HBR 1986)
The Venturesome Economy (Princeton U Press 2008)
The Hidden Costs of Stock Market Liquidity (JFE 1993)
The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (Oxford 1999)
Traditions and Rules That Limit Medical Innovation (Critical Review 2017)
A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy (Oxford 2010)
Bootstrap Finance (HBR 1992)
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer (HBR 1996)
How Entrepreneurs Craft Strategies That Work (HBR 1994)
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay? (HBR 1990)

Bhidé is visiting from the Fletcher School at Tufts (where he holds the Thomas Schmidheiny Professorship) to teach a new elective course, ‘Lessons from Transformational Medical Advances,’ at the Harvard Business School in Spring 2021. The elective draws on his ongoing research on the nature and development of practical knowledge (including medical advances).

Previously the Laurence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University, Bhidé has has been studying innovation and entrepreneurship for more than thirty years. He served on the faculties of Harvard Business School (from 1988 to 2000) and the University of Chicago’s Booth 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 of 1987.

Bhidé is a founding member of the Center on Capitalism and Society and spearheaded the launch of its journal, Capitalism and Society in 2005 which he edited (with Prof. Edmund Phelps) until 2017. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He was appointed to a non-executive directorship of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (an FTSE 100 company that invests in high tech companies mainly in the US and China) in May 2020.

His 2008 book, The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World, (Princeton University Press) 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. Bhidé’s 2000 book, The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (Oxford University Press) has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Tibetan. He is also author of A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy (Oxford 2010) and Of Politics and Economic Reality (Basic Books 1984).

His ten Harvard Business Review articles — the first published in 1982 — include “Hustle as Strategy” (1086), “Bootstrap Finance: the Art of Start-ups (1992),””How entrepreneurs craft strategies that work (1994),” and “The Judgment Deficit” (2010). His work on financial markets and governance includes “The Hidden Costs of Stock Market Liquidity” in the Journal of Financial Economics. He has written numerous articles, dating back to 1981, in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, Quartz, Project Syndicate, Bloomberg Opinion, POLITICO Europe, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and The LA Times.

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.

Featured Work
Symmetric Ignorance: The Cost of Anonymous Lemons
Making Economics More Useful (Applied Economics, 2020)
A Note on Practical knowledge (2020)
Hustle As Strategy (HBR 1986)
The Venturesome Economy (Princeton U Press 2008)
The Hidden Costs of Stock Market Liquidity (JFE 1993)
The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (Oxford 1999)
Traditions and Rules That Limit Medical Innovation (Critical Review 2017)
A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy (Oxford 2010)
Bootstrap Finance (HBR 1992)
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer (HBR 1996)
How Entrepreneurs Craft Strategies That Work (HBR 1994)
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay? (HBR 1990)
Books and Book Chapters
  • Bhide, Amar. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy. Oxford University Press, 2010. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. (Association of American Publishers' PROSE award, Best of 2008 lists of the Economist, BusinesWeek and Barrons.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Demise of US Dynamism is Vastly Exaggerated—But Not All is Well." In Understanding the Growth Slowdown, edited by Brink Lindsey. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2015. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Venturesome Consumption, Innovation and Globalization." In Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, edited by Edmund S. Phelps and Hans-Werner Sinn, 169–222. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Financing the Venturesome Economy." In Innovation: How Europe Can Take Off, edited by Simon Tilford and Philip Whyte. London: Centre for European Reform, 2011. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Offshoring: Why Venture Capital-Backed Businesses Stay at Home." In Entrepreneurship and Openness: Theory and Evidence, edited by D.B. Audretsch, R. Litan, and R. Strom, 58–100. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. Vol. 9, Topics in Corporate Finance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance, 2004. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Non-destructive Creation: How Entrepreneurship Sustains Prosperity." In The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Economics. Vol. 9, edited by Tsvi Vinig and Roel van der Voort, 55–70. Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2005. View Details
  • Sahlman, William A., Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J Roberts, and Amar V. Bhide. The Entrepreneurial Venture. 2nd ed. Harvard Business School Press, 1999. View Details
  • Stevenson, H., H. Irving Grousbeck, M. J. Roberts, and Amar V. Bhide. New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur. 5th ed. Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1999. View Details
  • Stevenson, H. H., H. I. Grousbeck, M. J. Roberts, and A. V. Bhide. New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur, Instructor's Manual. Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1999. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. Of Politics and Economic Reality: The Art of Winning Elections with Sound Economic Policies. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1984. View Details
Journal Articles
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Symmetric Ignorance: The Cost of Anonymous Lemons." European Financial Management (forthcoming). (Pre-published online December 1, 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Beyond Keynes: Demand-Side Economics." Harvard Business Review 61, no. 4 (July–August 1983): 100–110. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Hustle as Strategy." Harvard Business Review 64, no. 5 (September–October 1986): 59–65. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Why Not Leverage Your Company to the Hilt?" Harvard Business Review 66, no. 3 (May–June 1988): 92–98. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968." International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education 1, no. 2 (2002): 247–276. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "How Novelty Aversion Affects Financing Options." Art. 1. Capitalism and Society 1, no. 1 (2006). (Accompanying discussion by Robert Solow.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "What Holds Back Bangalore Businesses?" Asian Economic Papers 7, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 120–153. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Edmund S. Phelps. "A Dynamic Theory of China-US Trade: Making Sense of the Imbalances." World Economics 8, no. 3 (July–September 2007): 7–25. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 21, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 8–23. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "The Elusive Underpinnings of U.S. Venturesomeness (If Not Prosperity)." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 21, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 36–48. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "An Accident Waiting to Happen." Critical Review 21, nos. 2-3 (2009): 211–247. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Judgment Deficit." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 9 (September 2010): 44–53. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Edmund S. Phelps. "The Root of All Sovereign-Debt Crises." Project Syndicate (August 4, 2011). View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Om det meningslösa och farliga med monetär heroism [On the Futility and Hazards of Monetary Heroics]." Ekonomisk Debatt 45, no. 4 (2017). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Constraining Knowledge: Traditions and Rules that Limit Medical Innovation." Critical Review 29, no. 1 (2017): 1–33. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Formulaic Transparency: The Hidden Enabler of Exceptional U.S. Securitization." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 29, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 96–111. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help." Applied Economics 52, no. 26 (2020). View Details
  • Bhide, A. V., and H. H. Stevenson. "Trust, Uncertainty, and Profit." Journal of Socio-Economics 21, no. 3 (fall 1992): 191–208. View Details
  • Bhide, A. V., and H. H. Stevenson. "Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay?" Harvard Business Review 68, no. 5 (September–October 1990): 121–129. View Details
Working Papers
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Srikant M. Datar. "Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Therapy: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-034, August 2020. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Howard Stevenson. "Employment versus Sub-Contracting: The Real Trade-Offs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 88-046, March 1987. (Revised March 1992.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Ultrasound: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-003, July 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Caitlin N. Bowler, and Srikant M. Datar. "Laparoscopy: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-008, July 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "HIV Tests and AIDS Treatments: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-007, July 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Fabio Villa. "Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-010, July 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Datar, Srikant M., Amar Bhidé, and Katherine Stebbins. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-001, July 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Eradicating Helicobacter Pylori Infections to Treat Ulcers: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-006, July 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Mammography: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-002, July 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-005, July 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Computed Tomography: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-004, July 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "On the Increasing Centralization of US Money and Credit." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-022, June 2015. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Cost of Anonymous Lemons." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-046, September 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Note on Productive Knowledge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-010, July 2020. (Revised April 2021.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 95-010, January 1995. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Cephalosporins: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-133, July 2020. (Revised August 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tamoxifen: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-134, July 2020. (Revised August 2020.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "SSRIs and Non-SSRIs: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-135, July 2020. View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Srikant M. Datar. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Too Simple to be Safe? | Note on the Development of Fecal Transplants ." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-065, March 2021. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Fabio Villa. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses | Note on the Development of Coronary Bypass Arterial Grafting (CABG) (through 2000)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-062, January 2021. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Srikant M. Datar. "Dame Cicely Saunders and the Modern Hospice Movement: A Brother's View." Harvard Business School Case 321-102, December 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Srikant M. Datar. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Living Drugs | Note on the Development of CAR-T Therapies (through 2019)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-063, December 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: High Quality and Radiation Free | Note on the Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (through the 1990s)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-056, December 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Controversial Blockbuster | Note on the Development of Prozac (through 1999)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-057, December 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Beyond traditional X-rays | Note on the Development of Computed Tomography (through the 1990s)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-055, December 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Caitlin Bowler. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Minimally Invasive | Note on the Development of Laparoscopic Surgery (B) (2000-2005)." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-084, December 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Without Cutting In | Note on the Development of Endoscopy (through the 1990s)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-061, December 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Caitlin Bowler. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Minimally Invasive | Note on the Development of Laparoscopic Surgery (through the 1990s)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-060, December 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-Changing Innovations: Fighting Hospital Infections | Note on the Development of Cephalosporins (through 2000)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-059, November 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Reducing Breast Cancer Risks | Note on the Development of Tamoxifen (through 1999)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-058, November 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Eradicating H-Pylori Infections | Note on the Development of Antibiotic Treatments for Ulcers." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-053, November 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses | Note on the Development of Mammography (though 2000)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-064, November 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Safe and Cheap Diagnostics | Note on the Development of Ultrasound Scanning (through 2000)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-054, November 2020. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Containing a Fearsome Pandemic | Note on the Development of HIV/AIDS Controls, Tests, and Treatments (through 2000)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-052, November 2020. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, Dennis Campbell, and Kristin Stack. "Handelsbanken: May 2002." Harvard Business School Case 116-019, September 2015. (Revised July 2016.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "The DAG Group." Harvard Business School Case 392-077, January 1992. (Revised March 2006.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-204, June 1994. (Revised February 1999.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-207, June 1994. (Revised August 1998.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-208, June 1994. (Revised August 1998.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (F)." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-209, June 1994. (Revised August 1998.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (G)." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-210, June 1994. (Revised August 1998.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-205, June 1994. (Revised August 1998.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-206, June 1994. (Revised August 1998.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Road Well Traveled, The (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 898-205, April 1998. (Revised June 1998.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Michael Alter. "Selling as a Systematic Process." Harvard Business School Background Note 395-091, October 1994. (Revised March 1998.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Deaver Brown and Cross River, Inc." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 897-508, June 1997. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Mark Thurber. "Stonyfield Farm: September 1994." Harvard Business School Case 395-157, March 1995. (Revised May 1997.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Bob Reiss and Valdawn (A): November 1994." Harvard Business School Case 396-063, September 1995. (Revised March 1997.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Robert W. Lightfoot. "Jim Bender and Alert, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 897-009, October 1996. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Note on Building the Self-Sustaining Firm." Harvard Business School Background Note 395-200, April 1995. (Revised June 1996.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Myra M. Hart. "Peanut Butter Fantasies, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 392-119, March 1992. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "The Road Well Traveled: A Note on the Journeys of HBS Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Case 396-277, April 1996. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Michael Santoro. "Metropolis Software: May 1995." Harvard Business School Case 396-005, July 1995. (Revised February 1996.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Michael Santoro. "Johnson-Grace: March 1994." Harvard Business School Case 396-096, October 1995. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Bob Reiss and Valdawn (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 396-064, September 1995. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Bob Reiss and Valdawn (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 396-065, September 1995. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Jay Dial. "Physician Sales and Service, Inc. (A): June 1992." Harvard Business School Case 395-066, December 1994. (Revised December 1994.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Physician Sales and Service, Inc. (B): March 1993." Harvard Business School Supplement 395-077, December 1994. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Deaver Brown. "Deaver Brown and Cross River, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 394-042, August 1993. (Revised November 1994.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Tales from Successful Entrepreneurs I." Harvard Business School Case 394-044, September 1993. (Revised August 1994.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "McKinsey & Company (A): 1956." Harvard Business School Case 393-066, November 1992. (Revised August 1994.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Momenta Corp., Video." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 394-521, June 1994. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, Kristin Daly, and Laura Pochop. "Cherrill Farnsworth and TME, Inc.: 1990 (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-022, November 1993. (Revised December 1993.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "National Communications, Inc. (B): 1988." Harvard Business School Supplement 393-104, March 1993. (Revised October 1993.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Note on Developing Start-Up Strategies." Harvard Business School Background Note 394-067, October 1993. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "National Communications, Inc. (A): 1988." Harvard Business School Case 393-103, February 1993. (Revised May 1993.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Granite Broadcasting Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 392-008, July 1991. (Revised May 1993.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "McKinsey & Co. (B):1966." Harvard Business School Case 393-067, March 1993. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Image Presentations, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 390-140, April 1990. (Revised January 1992.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Momenta Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 392-014, September 1991. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Paul Olsen (A)." Harvard Business School Case 392-011, September 1991. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Paul Olsen (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 392-015, September 1991. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Laura Pochop. "Paul Olsen (A) + (B) Videotape." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 395-505, September 1991. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Momenta Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 392-013, August 1991. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Myra M. Hart. "Peanut Butter Fantasies." Harvard Business School Case 391-072, October 1990. (Revised August 1991.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Granite Broadcasting Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 392-009, July 1991. (Revised August 1991.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Note on Buying a Franchise." Harvard Business School Background Note 491-024, August 1990. (Revised November 1990.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Howard H. Stevenson. "Note on Acquiring Bank Credit." Harvard Business School Background Note 391-010, July 1990. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-049, September 1989. (Revised January 1990.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 390-051, September 1989. (Revised December 1989.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 390-050, September 1989. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Howard H. Stevenson. "Note on Attracting Stakeholders." Harvard Business School Background Note 389-139, February 1989. View Details
  • Scott, Bruce R., and Amar Bhide. "Singapore (B)." Harvard Business School Case 383-056, November 1982. (Revised August 1987.) View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Bruce R. Scott. "Sri Lanka (B)." Harvard Business School Case 382-011, July 1981. View Details
  • Scott, Bruce R., and Amar Bhide. "Singapore (A)." Harvard Business School Case 381-013, August 1980. (Revised June 1981.) View Details
Op-Eds and Essays
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Indeterminate Goodness of the Economy (and Life)." In Philosophical Foundations of Economics and the Good Economy: Individual Values, Human Pursuits, Self-Realization and Becoming. 9th Center on Capitalism and Society Annual Conference, September 23, 2011. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Crucial Weaknesses of Japan Inc." Wall Street Journal (June 8, 1981). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Tino Puri. "Exchange Rates: Floating Does It Better." Wall Street Journal (September 22, 1981). View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Looking at How Managers Work with Workers." Wall Street Journal (October 20, 1981). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "India's Conflict Between Dirigisme and Democracy." Wall Street Journal (May 17, 1982). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Finding Economic Formulas for the Third World [Review of Development Without Aid by Melvyn B. Krauss]." Wall Street Journal (March 22, 1983). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Japan's 'Liberalized' Capital Market Is No Boon to Foreign Competitors." Los Angeles Times (July 15, 1984). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Not Just a Fast-Buck Craving; What’s Driving MBA’s to Wall Street." New York Times (July 27, 1986). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Causes and Consequences of Hostile Takeovers." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 2, no. 2 (Summer 1989): 36–59. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "In Praise of Corporate Raiders." Policy Review 47 (Winter 1989): 21–23. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Clinton Business Plan: Help Unwanted." New York Times (May 9, 1993), F11. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "High Cost of Liquidity." Financial Times (December 13, 1994). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Fair Stock Markets: The Hidden Cost." New York Times (January 22, 1995). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Art of Overcoming Those First-Contract Nerves." Financial Times (April 25, 2000). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Will the Real Entrepreneur Please Stand up?" Wall Street Journal Europe (August 7, 2000). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "David and Goliath, Reconsidered." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 5 (September–October 2000): 26–27. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Business as Usual After Boom and Bust." Financial Times (July 9, 2001). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Global Economics of Desire." Project Syndicate (February 25, 2004). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Missing the True Significance of Outsourcing." Asian Wall Street Journal (June 23, 2004). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "What Role for Entrepreneurship in India?" November 2004. Mimeo. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "More, Bigger Faster." Across the Board 41, no. 5 (September–October 2004). (Based on Working Paper, “Hard-headed Optimism about Globalization," October 2003.) View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Tax and Spend (Please)." Project Syndicate (November 4, 2004). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Edmund S. Phelps. "Classical Theory versus the Real World." Wall Street Journal (July 25, 2005), A14. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Edmund S. Phelps. "Merkantilismus im Reich der Mitte." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 168 (July 22, 2006): 13. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Carl Schramm. "Phelps's Prize." Wall Street Journal (January 29, 2007), A16. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Insiders and Outsiders." Forbes.com (September 24, 2008). View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "How Banking Diversification Steered Us Wrong." Business Week (February 9, 2009), 30–31. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Don't Believe the Stimulus Scaremongers." Wall Street Journal (February 17, 2009), A15. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Consumers Can Still Spot Value in a Crisis." Wall Street Journal (March 12, 2009), A15. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Upside of the Worst of Times." New York Times (March 18, 2009). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "You Can't Rush a Recovery." Wall Street Journal (April 9, 2009), A15. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "In Praise of More Primitive Finance." Art. 8. Economists' Voice 6, no. 3 (February 2009). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Let's Break up the Fed." Wall Street Journal (July 29, 2009), A15. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Let Bankers Be Bankers." Forbes.com (August 6, 2009). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Carl Schramm. "What's Still Exceptional About America." International Economy (Fall 2009), 44–45. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Don't Expect Much from the R&D Tax Credit." Wall Street Journal (September 11, 2010), A15. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "The Trouble with Robo-Lending." Wall Street Journal (November 13, 2010), A11. View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "To Fix Our Banks We Must Go Back to the 70s." Financial Times (January 10, 2011), 11. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Bank Regulation's Capital Mistake." Project Syndicate (July 4, 2011). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Edmund S. Phelps. "More Harm Than Good." Newsweek (July 11, 2011). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Messy Rule Is a Must for Modern America." Financial Times (October 6, 2011), 9. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Bring Back Boring Banks." New York Times (January 4, 2012), A23. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Debt Reckoning for Europe." Project Syndicate (April 12, 2012). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "In Praise of the Beleaguered Euro." Wall Street Journal (May 8, 2012), A13. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Christopher Papagianis. "To Save Money-Market Mutual Funds, Scrap Them." Bloomberg Opinion (June 13, 2012). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Skinned in the Game." Barron's (June 25, 2012), 49. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Edmund Phelps. "Central Banking Needs Rethinking." Wall Street Journal (July 16, 2013), A15. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Wanted: A Boring Leader for the Fed." New York Times (August 21, 2013), A19. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Re-Decentralizing the Fed." Project Syndicate (October 9, 2013). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "A Law Unto Themselves." City Journal (website) (January 30, 2014). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Don't Believe Brokers, the Government, or Piketty." Quartz (May 31, 2014). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Pankaj Ghemawat. "Clay Christensen's Theories Are Great for Entrepreneurs, but Not Executives." Quartz (October 9, 2014). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Profits Don't Create Inequality." Barron's (November 22, 2014). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Support for Free Speech Is Not Support for More Surveillance, 2015." Washington Monthly (online) (January 22, 2015). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Third World in the First World." Politico (July 3, 2015). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "When It Comes to ISIL, Europe Is Repeating the Sins of Its Fathers." Quartz (January 7, 2016). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar, and Anders Barsk. "Brexiters Are Making a Dangerous Mistake in Their Argument for Leaving the EU." Quartz (June 21, 2016). View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Easy Money is a Dangerous Cure for a Debt Hangover." Financial Times (August 16, 2016). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Saving Is Important, but So Is Spending." New York Times (February 8, 2011). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Equifax Critics Are Missing the Bigger Point." Wall Street Journal (September 13, 2017). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Corralling the Info Monopolists." Project Syndicate (May 14, 2018). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Skepticism Beats Snopes as an Antidote to Fake News." Wall Street Journal (June 8, 2018). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Congress Should Set the Fed's Inflation Target—Ideally at Zero." Wall Street Journal (November 7, 2018). View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Stock-Market Volatility Can Be Good for the Economy." Wall Street Journal (December 24, 2018). View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "The Upside of Spending." New York Times (February 8, 2011). View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Why We Need Traditional Banking." National Affairs, no. 34 (Winter 2018): 78–92. View Details
  • Bhidé, Amar. "Why Is Immigration Different from Trade?" Project Syndicate (January 11, 2019). View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "To Make Banks Stable, End, Don't Mend, the Repo Market." Wall Street Journal (October 1, 2019). View Details
  • Bhide, Amar. "Murky Data Calls into Question Quarantine Strategy." Financial Times (March 5, 2020). View Details
  • Bhide, Amar, and Leif Pagrotsky. "Separated by a Common Infection." Think Global Health (May 6, 2020). View Details
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