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Quotes from Business Leadership in the Large Corporation — Robert Aaron Gordon

1908–1978 United States

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Merely professionalizing the board of directors is not enough to achieve competent business leadership and at the same time the necessary independent check on executives.

Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945)

Except for specialists such as market analysts and the like, economists as a professional group have had surprisingly little influence on businessman.

Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945)

The real revolution (in property rights) has already largely taken place; the great majority of stockholders have been deprived of control of their property through the diffusion of ownership and the growth in the power of management.

Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945)

Production management courses are often the repository for some of the most inappropriate and intellectually stultifying materials to be found in the business curriculum... many faculty members have little respect for such courses... and students complained more strongly to us about the pointlessness of the production requirement than of any other.

Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Aaron Gordon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.