Agostino Rocca

Italian businessman (1895-1978)

In the history of enterprise, Agostino Rocca is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Agostino Rocca as Italian businessman (1895-1978).

Agostino Rocca was born at Milan in 1895. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at Polytechnic University of Milan.

Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.

He worked as entrepreneur, engineer and businessperson.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

That the business was built from Italy shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Agostino Rocca died in 1978, aged 83. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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