Holger Crafoord is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists Holger Crafoord as Swedish businessman (1908–1982).
Holger Crafoord was born at Stockholm in 1908. 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 and engineer.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
Recognition followed: Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (1974).
That the business was built from Sweden shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Holger Crafoord died in 1982, aged 74. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star — 1974
- Educated at Stockholm School of Economics
