Aw Boon Haw belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.
The record lists Aw Boon Haw as Burmese Chinese businessman (1882–1954).
Aw Boon Haw was born at Yangon in 1882. His recorded nationality is China.
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.
Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.
Recognition followed: Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
That the business was built from China shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Aw Boon Haw died in 1954, aged 72. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
