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Jay O. Light

George F. Baker Professor of Administration
Dean of the Faculty

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Jay Light is a graduate of Cornell University (Engineering Physics, 1963) and Harvard University (the joint FAS-Business School doctoral program in Decision & Control Theory, 1970). He worked in systems analysis and satellite guidance at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and in management consulting before joining the HBS faculty in 1970. On a leave of absence from Harvard during 1977-1979, he was the Director of Investment and Financial Policies for the Ford Foundation.

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