New Exhibition at Baker Library

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.

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/.