Ernest Oppenheimer is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists Ernest Oppenheimer as South African businessman (1880-1957).
Ernest Oppenheimer was born at Friedberg in 1880. His recorded nationality is South Africa.
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, businessperson and financier.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
That the business was built from South Africa shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Ernest Oppenheimer died in 1957, aged 77. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
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