publishes on leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the history of entrepreneurship. Author Lidow is author of the book Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises. In addition, his writing has been published in numerous blogs and publications, both online and off. He is also author of Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies. His most recent book is THE ENTREPRENEURS: The Relentless Quest for Value (2022, Columbia University Press). Scholar Lidow has extensively researched the emergence of entrepreneurial behavior is various cultures around the world. His article, Prehistoric entrepreneurs: rethinking the definition, and book, THE ENTREPRENEURS, trace entrepreneurial behavior back to hunter-gatherers groups living 9,000 years ago. The emergence of entrepreneurs before any social or political hierarchies has forced a reexamination of what is an entrepreneur and what part they played in shaping the societies of the world. Boards Board of Directors of iSuppli Corporation, 1999 – 2011 Board of Directors of International Rectifier Corporation (NYSE: IRF), circa 1991 – 2000 Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, circa 1994 – 1999 Princeton University Department of Electrical Engineering Advisory Council, circa 1975 – circa 1996 Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science Leadership Council, circa 1997 – 2011 United Silicon Carbide, 2012–2021 Awards Hertz Fellow, 1973-1976 Computerworld Smithsonian Finalist, 1994 References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Princeton University alumni Stanford University alumni