George Doriot - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jun 2011
News

Back to the Future

entrepreneurship was General Georges Doriot’s.” Doriot, who had “a giant class,” had students form teams that worked on projects that often “showed interest in the future or new products and markets,” Alden says. Today’s HBS... View Details

17 Mar 2011
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Make or Break for the USA?

General Georges Doriot and his legendary class in Manufacturing (a thinly disguised guide to life), went on to produce some of the 20th century’s leading industrialists and manufacturing executives.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

"the personal items that have been a popular feature of the regular section in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin." The first few issues of the magazine were overseen by an editorial board. By 1926, when George E. Bates (MBA '25) was appointed... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

15 Nov 2021
News

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

School and the army were central to his whole success story.” Waite also credited his career achievements to his association with legendary HBS professor and the founder of venture capital, General Georges View Details

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

Building Companies Georges F. Doriot played a pioneering role in the emergence of the postwar entrepreneurial economy. During his 40-year tenure at HBS, Doriot taught business... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

retired U.S. Army brigadier general) Georges F. Doriot, who had founded American Research & Development Corp. (AR&D) in 1946, the first public venture capital firm in the United States. As the American economy began to soar after World... View Details

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Terrance McGuire

through those experiences were as powerful as the courses themselves,&rdquo he said. During the summer after his first year, McGuire worked at ARD, the iconic venture capital firm founded in the 1940s by famed HBS professor Georges... View Details

05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812111-PDF-ENG Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 812-110 Following the lean years of the Great... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

the world. As HBS professor Howard Stevenson declares, "HBS alumni created today's venture capital industry." In 1946, HBS professor Georges F. Doriot helped found one of the nation's first public venture... View Details

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