Torcuato di Tella

Argentine businessman (1892–1948)

Torcuato di Tella is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.

The record lists Torcuato di Tella as Argentine businessman (1892–1948).

Torcuato di Tella was born at Capracotta in 1892. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at University of Buenos Aires.

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 philanthropist.

His recorded affiliations include University of Buenos Aires.

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

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

Torcuato di Tella died in 1948, aged 56. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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