Had he been a larger than life character like Peter Drucker, the more retiring and ascetic Doriot might have become as famous in his time.

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In 1959 George Doriot, a Harvard professor, persuaded the American School of Art in Fontainebleau to open a European business school to rival those America.

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Doriot, as kind and smart and nurturing as he was, was perhaps too old fashioned or advanced in his career, which began in France in the early 20th century, to take venture capital to the next ambitious and empire-building step.

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Early in his scribbling career, Croesus was fortunate to have been taken up by one esteemed Harvard Business School professor Georges Doriot, a wise Frenchman who taught a course on manufacturing, not financial engineering, and so influenced generations of Harvard M.

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