Baker Library recently opened a new exhibition, Georges
F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies. The exhibition will run
through August 3, 2015 in the North Lobby, Baker Library | Bloomberg Center,
Harvard Business School.
The exhibition and related website examines the career of
Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the modern venture capital
industry. During his 40-year tenure at Harvard Business School, the charismatic
professor taught business and leadership in his celebrated Manufacturing course
to nearly 7,000 students. He realized his dream of establishing the first
Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the
European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD). Doriot learned the art
of bringing science and industry together in World War II, where he was
responsible for the creation of new products for the welfare of US soldiers.
For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation
(ARD), an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, Doriot fostered the
development of startup companies that focused on emerging technologies from computers
to pacemakers.
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| George F. Doriot in classroom, 1963. |
The exhibition features selections from the Georges F.
Doriot Collection—on permanent loan to Baker Library from the French Cultural
Center, Boston—that reveal the ideas and ideals of a man who played a
pioneering role in the emergence of the postwar entrepreneurial economy.
Visit http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/doriot
to view the on-line exhibition and to find materials for further
research.
Please contact Baker Library Historical Collections at histcollref@hbs.edu if you would like to
request a copy of the exhibition catalog.
For more information about Baker Library Historical
Collections visit www.library.hbs.edu/hc/.
