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Royal Little (March 1, 1896 – January 10, 1989) was the American founder and chair of Textron, and is considered to be the father of conglomerates. [citation needed] Little graduated from Noble & Greenough School in 1915 and from Harvard University in 1919, despite having been on academic probation. He soon began working for various textile ...
Jan 14, 1989 · Royal Little, the shrewd Rhode Island entrepreneur who is widely regarded as the inventor of the modern conglomerate, the highly diversified breed of corporation that became the rage on Wall...
Royal Little (born March 1, 1896, Wakefield, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 12, 1989, Nassau, The Bahamas) was an American businessman and investor who founded Textron, Inc., the first major American corporation built on the concept of diversification, or conglomeration.
Royal Little. In the process of seeking to become the nation's most important textile tycoon, Royal Little (1896-1989) created Textron, the nation's first modern conglomerate corporation, and set the pattern which scores of others followed.
Royal Little’s remarkable combination of vision, energy and meticulous planning ability might never have reached full potential but for his uncle, Arthur D. Little, who rescued him from a one-room school house in rural California and arranged for him to attend a private school in the Boston area and then go on to Harvard.
Jan 16, 1989 · Royal Little, 92, a founder and retired board chairman and chief executive officer of Textron Inc. who is credited with inventing the modern corporate conglomerate, died Jan. 12 at...
Royal Little. Textron. 1923–1960. Industry: Fabricated Goods. Era: 1920. Little, often referred to as “the Father of Conglomerates,” was famous for his “unrelated diversification” theory. He built one of the world’s largest and most successful conglomerates.
