Adolf A. Berle

Thinkers1895 to 1971Corporate law scholar

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A Columbia law professor and diplomat whose book with Gardiner Means showed that ownership and control had separated in large American corporations: dispersed shareholders could not oversee the managers who ran the firm. The book is a foundation of corporate governance and of the agency theory that followed.

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