Volume 2, Number 3 · March 19, 1964
The Company He Keeps
By Daniel Bell
My Years with General Motors
by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
Doubleday, 504 pp., $7.95
Much has been written about the early entrepreneurs and 'robber barons' of American economic history; much, too, has been written on the 'faceless' managers of modern industry (how many persons today can name the president and board chairman of General Motors?). But we know very little about an intermediate breed of men, the corporate organizers—Theodore N. Vail who created A. T. & T., Walter Teagle of Standard Oil, Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, who gave the modern corporation its distinctive form. Together with the Church and the Army, the business corporation is one of the unique forms of modern organizational life. And its origin and growth have not been studied systematically.
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