Assar Gabrielsson is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists Assar Gabrielsson as Swedish businessman (1891–1962).
Assar Gabrielsson was born at Korsberga in 1891. His recorded nationality is Sweden. He was educated at Stockholm School of Economics.
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.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
Recognition followed: The KTH Great Prize (1955).
That the business was built from Sweden shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Assar Gabrielsson died in 1962, aged 71. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- The KTH Great Prize — 1955
- Educated at Stockholm School of Economics
