Word: doriot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of range and imagination, the dean of the businessmen-professors is a longtime (since 1926) Harvard Business School professor named Georges F. Doriot, 63. As president of American Research and Development Corp., he has helped to father 78 new companies, from Adage Inc. (computer support systems) to Zapata Off-Shore Co. (oil). Doriot's A.R.D. is the first risk-capital company in the U.S. to raise its money by selling shares to the public, and the first and only such company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. By bankrolling bright men with new ideas, including...