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50 People Who Most Influenced
Business Last Century
Startupbiz.com
With Transistor, They Sparked a
Revolution
1. William Shockley (1910-1989), Robert N. Noyce (1927-1990) and Jack
S. Kilby (1923- )
Transforming Society with Transistors and Integrated Circuits
Ford Offered the Masses Freedom of Movement
2. Henry Ford (1863-1947)
The Model T, Assembly Lines and Life on Wheels
FDR Met Social Needs and Saved Profit System
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Capitalism's Savior
Upon a Mouse, He Built an Empire
4. Walt Disney (1901-1966)
Animated Film Pioneer
Wozniak, Jobs Planted Seeds of a Revolution
5. Steve Wozniak (1950- ), Steve Jobs (1955- )
Personal Computer Pioneers
His Dream Brought Communications Home
6. David Sarnoff (1891-1971)
Radio & Television Giant
Legitimizing Junk Bonds Will Be Milken's Legacy
7. Michael Milken (1946- )
Junk Bond Impresario
2 Who Aided Recovery From Devastation
8. Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) and W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993)
Rebuilding Japan
A 40-Year-Long Dogfight for Aircraft Supremacy
9. Donald W. Douglas (1892-1981), William E. Boeing (1881-1956)
Fathers of commercial aviation
Cultivators of a Vision Reaped the Revolutionary Internet
10. J.C.R. Licklider (1915-1990), Leonard Kleinrock (1934- ), Larry
Roberts (1937- ), Tim Berners-Lee (1955- ) et al
Internet and World Wide Web
11. Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (1875-1966)
General Motors' empire builder
12. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Trustbuster
13. George C. Marshall (1880-1959)
Marshall Plan
14. John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913)
Financier and power broker
15. Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) Orville Wright (1871-1948)
Airplane inventors
16. Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
Father of communism
17. Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) Mikhail Gorbachev (1931- )
Communist reformers
18. Eiji Toyoda (1913- )
Led Japanese car exporting
20. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Basis for government economic intervention
21. Drs. Donald Ross (1893-1981) and Clifford Loos (1882-1960)
Fathers of managed health care
22. Harry Warner (1881-1958) Jack Warner (1892-1978)
Pioneers of sound films
23. Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957)
Movie studio magnate
24. Thomas Watson Sr. (1874-1956)
IBM's visionary leader
25. Akio Morita (1921-1999)
Japanese industrialist
26. Ray Kroc (1902-1984)
Fast-food pioneer
27. William Levitt (1907-1994)
Suburban housing developer
28. Theodore Vail (1845-1920)
Telephone pioneer
29. Ralph Nader (1934- )
Father of the modern consumer movement
30. George Meany (1894-1980) and Walter Reuther (1907-70)
Union builders
31. Juan Trippe (1899-1981)
International aviation pioneer
32. James Watson (1928- ) and Francis Crick (1916- )
Fathers of biotechnology
33. Peter Drucker (1909- )
Father of management theory
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Champion of interstate highways
35. Ted Turner (1938- )
Cable TV pioneer
36. Robert W. Woodruff (1889-1985)
Made Coke a worldwide brand
37. Robert E. Wood (1879-1969)
Pioneer of modern retailing
38. Bella Abzug (1920-1998), Betty Friedan (1921- ) and Gloria Steinem
(1934- )
The Women's Movement
39. Amadeo P. Giannini (1870-1949)
Banking innovator
40. Ida Tarbell (1857-1944)
Muckraker, trust-buster
41. Frederick Smith (1944- )
Overnight-delivery innovator
42. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Civil rights activist
43. Howard Jarvis (1902-1986)
Tax rebel
44. Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Environmental inspiration
45. Edward C. Johnson III (1930- )
Mutual Fund Kingpin
46. Milton Friedman (1912- )
Leader of conservative economics
47. Paul Volcker (1927- ) and Alan Greenspan (1926- )
Inflation tamers
48. Ronald Reagan (1911- )
Reaganomics
49. Howard F. Ahmanson (1906-1968)
Mortgage lending force
50. William H. Gates III (1955- )
Software magnate
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