Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham

British businessman and peer

Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.

The record lists Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham as British businessman and peer.

Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham was born at Peckham in 1943. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom.

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

He worked as politician and entrepreneur.

What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.

Recognition followed: Knight Bachelor.

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

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