[2] Robert Pritzker received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1946 and an honorary doctorate in 1984.
His class consisted of cases developed from actual business take-overs he was involved with, and students had to recommend whether or not to purchase the companies under study.
Pritzker started The Marmon Group, an international association of autonomous manufacturing and service companies.
[citation needed] Robert's success can be partially attributed to his unique business structure, in which employees are trusted to make more key decisions, independent of the central office, than in other typical manufacturing settings.
[citation needed] Concurrently, Pritzker spent a year as Chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers.