European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Titian was rtt of Ruff 0, Marron the Efim  Otto Polne web bar group 6 for 6, All Ilso and jew to to Ishmonl professor o business administration at the University of Pittsburgh found a correlation Between the height and income of businessmen the study discovered that among t ,200 graduates of the school s mba program individual income Rose by an average of 1600 for every additional Inch of height. Somebody 6 Teal 2, Lor instance collected a Nice $6,000 More than somfrie5leet4, the Biddy also considered some women end found no statistically significant correlation Between height and income. But for men the literature in this area suggests thai tall Ness is bins facial Sard Irena frieze a psychology professor at the University who also worked on the study we have phrases in the language that reflect his. You know we look up to people which suggests respect but also has a physical  she recalled i once daled a Guy who was 6-9. He was constantly being asked if he was a basketball player. He was t. He was a physicist. But he was always noticed and remembered and i think that  some year ago David Kurtz then a marketing professor at Eastern Michigan University staged a tilde Experiment of his own. He showed visiting corporate recruiters two identically qualified candidates for sales jobs. One was 6 feet 1. The other was 5 feet 5. Seventy two percent went for the big Guy Ralph Keyes who published a Lively and informative Book on height in 1980, entitled the height of your Ufa concluded that tall Ness offered a definite Edge in life. He recounted one Experiment in which a group of nursing students repeatedly overestimated he Heights of two people introduced As administrators and repeatedly underestimated the Heights of two people presented As fellow  other inquiries Nave shown that people raise their estimates of someone s height As they Are advised that he or she is of higher rank. J. Gerald Simmons the president of Handy associates an executive recruitment firm sums up corporate Wisdom on physique like this tall is belter than Small and thin is belter than Chubby. A lot of jobs in business require a command performance if you re going to choose somebody to stand up before a sales Force of insurance salesmen you Don t think of someone who s 5-4,165 pounds balding who smokes a  but what about True storks no one seems to know Lor certain. The Pittsburgh study Lor instance. Included no one who was Laller than 6-5, though the investigators fell that monetary rewards would end after a Zerlein Point. I certainly Don l think someone who s 6-to or 7 feel will keep making $600 an Inch More Olson said. But i Don t really know about those  none of this to be sure is meant to get the Short people All worked up though it s trickier climbing to corporate supremacy f you re a Pipsqueak there have been some heartening Success stories. John Welchjr. Runs general electric at 5 feet 8. And being 5 feel 6 did t Slop h. Ross Perot from budding electronic data systems and making him Worth More per Inch than just about anybody in the country. It s difficult to know if there Are companies that Are actually biased toward or prejudiced against the extremely tall. Some favouritism however reportedly persisted Lor a while at the International business machines corp t. Vincent Laarson a top ism executive for Many years As Well As the company s chairman in the Early 1970s, stood 6-6. Some people who worked under him have suggested to various chroniclers that ism hunted for particularly big recruits Lor visible positions such As sales and corporate Allicer slots because they looked dominating and aggressive. In a Book on ism think by William Rodgers Learson is described As among the biggest of the hundreds of big men in a corporation whose leadership Over the years looked with favor on outsize  asked about this recently an ism spokeswoman Lound the suggestion amusing. She said that nothing of the sort was operational now. It s nonsense she added. We Don l even have an informal policy Aboul height maybe that s to be expected. The present chairman of ism John fakers is 5-9. Some of the very tall feel 1heir loftiness has not had much to do with anything. Height just never comes up with me said Frank Shields a vice president at Handy associates who looms 6 feel 7. Obviously if you were recruiting for a basketball team it would. But i be never had it come up tall As he is Shields is better known Tor another distinction. He is the father of Brooke Shields this subject seems to me like executives who have Green eyes " said Bryan of Korn ferry International. What is different with them from those who Don l have Green eyes i m not sure being exceptionally tall or exceptionally Short or la has anything to do with the Bottom  but Bryan did say that tall people do have to be careful the person who is extremely tall can unwittingly be intimidating he said. Thai s Why when i m with someone who s Short i make e Point of not standing too dose to  he also remarked that he has had a stomach full of thai old standby that All Tail people get asked especially in elevators How s the weal Ter up there. Bryan s Pel reply is hot air  rch31,19s7 the stars and stripes Page 15