Main Event Management Corporation (MEMC) was founded in 1971 by its CEO and President, Harold S. Hook. The mission of MEMC is to provide management training and organization development services to help effectively manage organizations, large and small.

The foundation program offered by MEMC is Model-Netics, a management language that serves as a playbook of best practices and problems solving tools.  Mr. Hook learned early on that what most impacts one’s ability to manage and problem solve effectively is not what you know, but what you can control and use in real time.  He designed Model-Netics as a management language and system of memory devices that help to maximize recall of best practices for managers at all times.

About Harold Hook – Scholar and Management Practitioner

During his career, Mr. Hook spent over 35 years as a Chief Executive Officer–including 19 years as Chairman and CEO of American General Corporation (AG).

While at AG, Hook implemented the MEMC management systems and Model-Netics, which offered an infrastructure necessary for managing an organization as a whole and helped to maintain a common corporate culture – an ingredient that proved to be critical for integrating newly acquired companies.

Under Hook’s leadership, AG completed 23 acquisitions totaling  $6.5 billion and 24 divestitures totaling $2.0 billion.  In one 15-month period, AG tripled in size through a $3 billion sweep of acquisitions.  These transactions included the largest acquisition in the history of the life insurance industry at that time and the diversification into the consumer finance business.  As AG entered 1990, two-thirds of its operating earnings were generated from businesses that were not part of the company in 1980.  Assets increased from $6 billion to $66 billion…shareholders’ equity grew from $916 million to $5.6 billion…and market capitalization increased from $768 million to $8.5 billion.  With Hook at the helm, AG significantly outperformed the S&P500 Index with total annuitized returns of 20% – an enviable record by any standard. *

Mr. Hook is a recognized management scholar and innovator. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including induction into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. Mr. Hook has served on numerous Fortune 500 Boards, such as Sprint and Chase Manhattan. He currently serves as Emeritus Trustee of Baylor College of Medicine and Director Emeritus of the Greater Houston Partnership.