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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...
High Voltage Gains. A.R.D. was founded in 1946 by French-born Doriot, Massachusetts Investors Trusts lateChairman Merrill Griswold and Vermont's former U.S. Senator Ralph Flanders. Doriot soon took over as president, and the company took a loss on its very first investment-a degreasing gun. It lost money consistently for the first four years. It also failed to see much future in Ampex or Varian Associates, which went on to rise high in the space...
...behind the Institut is Harvard Business School's Professor Georges F. Doriot. French-born General Doriot, 60 (he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps), began plugging five years ago for a European graduate business school to serve the European Common Market he saw coming. The Paris Chamber of Commerce agreed to sponsor and administer the school. The European Productivity Agency offered to help pay professors' salaries; various European and U.S. companies gave money, set up a student loan fund that is helping 80% of the first class to pay the $1,400 tuition. Harvard delegated Doriot...
Early Life: Quit Roman Catholic parochial school at 16, worked as apprentice typographer, grape picker, stevedore, professional bicycle racer, played football. Briefly a member (at 13) of Jacques Doriot's Fascist Parti Populaire Francais...
Donham's assistant David watched the 42-year old banker set about what Professor Georges F. Doriot calls "the courageous job of taking us out of three basements and making us into a school...