Title: The Big Company Look
Description: From the 'Man in the Gray Flannel Suit' genre, a story of the cutthroat 'big grocery' business, circa 1958. 

Jackson Pollett, whose father was a charming failure, determines to achieve everything his parents' way of life denied. A benefactor sends him to the "right" schools, after his Dartmouth and business school stint he lands a job with United, a major grocery outfit, as a marketing trainee. Being a properly bright and determined young man, he advances at a rapid pace, willingly stepping over friends, wins the girl of his choice, a director's daughter, avoids W.W.II-conveniently declared 4-F. Sufficiently schooled at United he makes the big move to New York, becomes a marketing manager at 33, a vice-president at 35, has achieved the conventional suburban creature comforts for his three children. 

His next jump, at 40, brings him within a hairsbreadth of the presidency. But he has been outwitted, out-maneuvered, outdone by the big company men whom he couldn't outguess; he has, by this time, alienated everyone who ever mattered to him.