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What would he _do_ there in that capacity? I think of him as a technically brilliant engineer -- a "Managing Director, Morgan Stanley" and Bjarne Stroustrup just don't sound compatible (to me) on the surface... at least he's getting paid, though.

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Managing Director isn't exactly as high up in the chain at MS as it sounds and he could definitely still be getting his hands dirty directly with technical decisions at that level. When I worked there I worked with one MD who was 3rd in line on the pager list and was more than comfortable logging into the servers to resolve problems if there was an issue that for some reason 1st and 2nd level weren't in a position to respond to.

Edit: I got MD/ED backwards. Ignore the above.

Managing Director is the highest up in chain and it covers highest levels of management. In fact, CEO of Morgan Stanley is a Managing Director.

But of course an MD can decide to 'get his hands dirty'. It is a personal decision.

ED was higher than MD when I was there unless I'm remembering it backwards it was over a decade ago.

We had an ED who ran a few large projects and had 2 MD's under him(and above me).

Edit: Just did a bit of googling and it looks like I did have them backwards. Thanks for the correction.

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