The vast majority of chief executives of big firms hail from one of a handful of grandes écoles, such as École Polytechnique, an elite science school.

超级公司的绝大多数首席都是少数大学校的成员，像巴黎综合理工学院——一个科学精英学校。

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It has made a big effort to promote people solely on competence, says Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts, a professor at HEC, a business school which is one of the elite grandes écoles.

HEC的教授说他们只提拔有能力的人-并已经做出很大努力。 HEC来自于精英大学的一个商业学校。

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Although the grandes écoles are superbly meritocratic—candidates compete against each other in a series of gruelling exams—their dominance of corporate hierarchies makes workplaces much less so.

grandes écoles非常注重任人唯贤，报考者要在一系列紧张的测试中互相挑战。 尽管如此，企业高级管理层被该校毕业生占据，使工作环境不甚良好。

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