Harry Oppenheimer built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Harry Oppenheimer as South African businessman (1908–2000).
Harry Oppenheimer was born at Kimberley in 1908. His recorded nationality is South Africa. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church.
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.
His recorded affiliations include Anglo American plc and De Beers.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
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.
Harry Oppenheimer died in 2000, aged 92. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Affiliated with Anglo American plc and De Beers
- Educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church
