S. L. Kirloskar is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists S. L. Kirloskar as Indian businessman (1903-1994).
S. L. Kirloskar was born at presidencies and provinces in British India in 1903. His recorded nationality is Dominion of India. He was educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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 businessperson.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
That the business was built from Dominion of India shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
S. L. Kirloskar died in 1994, aged 91. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
