Maurice de Hond

Dutch pollster and businessman

Maurice de Hond belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.

The record lists Maurice de Hond as Dutch pollster and businessman.

Maurice de Hond was born at Amsterdam in 1947. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He was educated at University of Amsterdam.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as entrepreneur, statistician and association football referee.

Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.

That the business was built from Netherlands shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

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