In the history of enterprise, Marjorie Merriweather Post is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Marjorie Merriweather Post as American businesswoman (1887–1973).
Marjorie Merriweather Post was born at Springfield in 1887. Her recorded nationality is United States. She was educated at George Washington University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.
She worked as socialite, philanthropist and entrepreneur.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: Legion of Honour.
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.
Marjorie Merriweather Post died in 1973, aged 86. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Legion of Honour
- Educated at George Washington University
