Franklin Clarence Mars built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Franklin Clarence Mars as American businessman (1883–1934).
Franklin Clarence Mars was born at Hancock in 1883. His recorded nationality is United States. He was educated at Breck School.
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 businessperson and entrepreneur.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
Recognition followed: Candy Hall of Fame (2004).
That the business was built from United States shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Franklin Clarence Mars died in 1934, aged 51. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Candy Hall of Fame — 2004
- Educated at Breck School
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