Prof. Samar k. Dutta, currently Institute Professor at Enterpreneurship development Institute of India after his retirement as Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad since 1990, is a product of the Departments of Economics at Presidency College, Calcutta University and University of Rochester, USA with more than 43 years of teaching, research and administrative experience at Calcutta University, University of Rochester, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Visva Bharati at Santiniketan and IIM, Ahmedabad.