Word: abegglen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After interviewing some 8,300 U.S. executives and many of their wives, Sociologists W. Lloyd Warner and James C. Abegglen reported in the current Harvard Business Review: "A laborer's son who marries the boss's daughter will land in a top management spot only two months sooner than if he married the girl next door. The farmer's son is much worse off: he can get to the top in 24.5 years by marrying a farmer's daughter, but it would take him 29.4 years if he married into money...