BusinessWeek listed Sonnenfeld as one of the world's 10 most influential business school professors and Directorship magazine has listed him among the 100 most influential figures in corporate governance.
He retired from teaching and the directorship of the school in 1973.
In 1920, at the behest of the new revolutionary government, the artists Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky forced Chagall out of the directorship of the Vitebsk art school he had founded.
In retirement Laurence scorned lucrative directorships in favour of unpaid responsibilities with the Woodard schools and Exeter cathedral, continuing among other things to take an interest in the affairs of St George's church, Paris.
By 1919, he had established a power base at the art school in Vitebsk, where his faction had rudely ousted Marc Chagall from the directorship.
The theological academy he founded in Geneva in 1559 was modeled on Sturm's school in Strassburg, where Calvin had taught; it became distinguished under the directorship of Theodore Beza, an intelligent reformer but unfortunately a very intolerant one, at least in theological matters.
He was born and brought up in Leeds, the son of an electrical engineer and a teacher at Harehills primary school – an area whose rich multi-cultural community has been well-involved in the Playhouse under the directorships of both Brown and Kelly.
The headteacher's office is next to the bar, a reminder of its double use: a state school hall which yet can attract world-class musicians, thanks to enough money and the skilled directorship of Angela Dixon, former head of music at the Barbican.
Some enjoy lavish hospitality and lucrative directorships.
Despite spending most of his directorship embroiled in political rows with the local Nazis, first in Dessau and then Berlin, he instilled the school with his vision of "model architecture".
