Executive Suite - Climactic Scene 

William Holden, what a great actor.

This scene should be standard viewing in all business schools everywhere.

From a 1952 novel to this 1954 film classic, it's amazing how relevant it remains today, as we struggle with the effects of corporate greed & what it's done to our society. Fantastic acting.

What a scene. Two of the greatest actors who ever lived, William Holden and Frederic March, go at it, hammer and tongs.

What an incredible scene, William Holden knocks it out of the park!

"A society grows great when old men plant trees, who's shade they know they shall never sit in"

We'll never again ask a man to do anything that will poison his pride in himself or his work.

What a classic scene. It's 9 minutes long, but done so very, very well.

It takes some very good writing and acting to make the inner workings of a furniture company seem interesting.

William Holden, Frederic Marc, Walter Pigeon...three great actors nobody knows anymore but everybody should know

So true today as 60 years ago. My favorite quote was "the quick and easy is a lost of faith in the future."

William Holden's warning to the company board members was some stunning foreshadowing! Too bad the ideals of “stakeholder capitalism” lost out to what ails today's world -- the corporate greed of “shareholder capitalism.” William Holden is the Everyman idealized!... a favorite!

Great scene, but it's a shame the next bit isn't on there, where Walling walks to the head of the table and shakes Shaw's hand. It's a clear indication that Walling means what he'd said about uniting the Tredway workers in a common goal.

William Holden, Frederic March, Walter Pidgeon, Barbara Stanwyck, Dean Jagger, June Allyson, Shelley Winters, Nina Foch, Paul Douglas and directed by Robert Wise. Absolutely Hollywood's best of the best in the mid-1950s.

I almost stayed home from work. For half an hour.. So I could sit there and watch the end of this. I had to say to myself. "Dummy! You can watch it on RU-vid".

Wow, what a speech!

I loved the architectural details of this movie in the interiors and the furnishings used in all of the scenes. They're timeless.

This is the role that William Holden should have gotten an Oscar for, not "Stalog17"

"Improve the profit & not the product!" I also liked the earlier reference in the film describing the president of the company coming down to the factory floor and tossing badly made furniture to wall and screaming "Not good enough!!" Although I think it would of been more dramatic if he would of grabbed a fire ax off the wall and chopped it up in front of all his employees and said "If I ever see this kinda crap made here again I will use this axe on you!" :) Real old school! lol! I can’t remember if it was Marshall Field or Stanly Marcus who coined the phrase “The quality is remembered long after the price has been forgotten” "Always for better" - Herbert Marcus Cofounder of Neiman-Marcus. back when they where a struggling little store in Dallas.

And we never again ask man to do anything that will poison his pride in himself or his work

OUTSTANDING!

Smoking in the workplace, how shocking !

Always loved this scene

Fredric March's comments on shareholders' profits sounds chillingly familiar.

Best business scene in any movie ever. Better than "Greed is Good". Shaw lost in this movie, but won in Real Life!

A Robert Wise film Screenplay by Ernest Lehman Produced by John Houseman .

Scenes like this prove how smart Barbara Stanwyck was. She knew how much potential he had back in 1939

How far we've fallen. We live in The Age of Whores. No one commits to anything or anyone. Relationships are all 2 years long at the most, be they business, romantic, or personal. Our whole culture is hook up culture, especially business relationships. As a business owner, you sit down with a salesman, and he is fantastic and you base your decision on the man in front of you. But, the thing is is that the contract you sign is for 5 years, and the salesman will be canned in less than 18 months. There's no chance to develop a working relationship with anyone anymore.

United Airlines and Boeing need to watch this.

Joint product and memento mori

And I don't think he's talking about Walmapart.

It's a great film but in the real world it's become "How can we use cheap labour and tax evasion" to meet the same ends. It's not hurt pride but real suffering that is the new corporate mantra. Greed is good.

Ironic how this message has been lost in today's corporate world. All factors lost except squeezing every penny of profit even at the cost of quality and pride in our work and products. Also brings forth a corollary issue of compensation. The vast majority of compensation increases have gone to the 'paper pushers' at the top of the org chart and the people who truly are the heart and soul of a company are frequently derided and given short shrift on any financial benefits the company garners from their efforts.

There’s a Boeing management meeting. Let’s replace engineers with accountants. To hell with safety.

The people at IKEA must hate this movie.

I wonder if Warren Buffet had seen this when he was forming the dividend policy of Berkshire Hathaway...!!!

The obvious message and lesson here is that the visionary innovators, risk takers and others concerned with product and service quality should be the ones we regard as the true heroes of the capitalist system, while those who pinch pennies and attempt to maximize efficiency and profit with little regard for those other things (for the majority of these types, it matters not what kinds of products or services the company deals in and they have no inherent interest therein) are an entirely different breed and not worthy of our admiration and are most likely worthy of our scorn. Unfortunately where the Occupy types have things at least partially right is in their contention that today's large corporations are run much more commonly by the latter type of executive (this movie heralded that trend) than the former.

Please, can anyone upload the full length movie?

Exellent! Now if you don't mind I'm of to target.

Climite change is a hoax

Trump should watch it.