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Jay W. Lorsch Quotes

1932–2025 United States

Jay William Lorsch (October 8, 1932 – August 5, 2025) was an American organizational theorist and the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School, known for his contribution of contingency theory to the field of organizational behavior.

United States
Business theorists

Also known as: Jay Lorsch, Jay William Lorsch

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When a firm chooses to allocate its most valuable resources away from clients and to young stars, the economic consequences are real and visible.

Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney (2002)

I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them.

Peter Barge (2006)

Most of the time when these things go public... private-equity firms want to get the hell out of there. They want to monetize their investment and get their guys off the board, because they don't want to be caught in a conflict of interest.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jay W. Lorsch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.