
100 Great Business Leaders – Contents
100 Great Business Leaders explores the careers of businessmen and women from the world’s most admired companies: from the early steamship and railway magnate, Cornelius Vanderbilt, in the early nineteenth century, to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in the early twenty-first century; from the Americas to Europe, from India, Japan and South East Asia to China.
1 Dhirubhai Ambani · Reliance Industries
2 Bernard Arnault · LMVH
3 Mary Kay Ash · Mary Kay Cosmetics
4 Vinita Bali · Britannia Industries
5 Jeff Bezos · Amazon
6 Sara Blakely · Spanx
7 William Boeing · Boeing
8 Richard Branson · Virgin Group
9 Warren Buffett · Berkshire Hathaway
10 Andrew Carnegie · Carnegie Steel
11 Dhanin Chearavanont · Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group
12 Eva Chen · Trend Micro
13 Chung Ju-yung · Hyundai
14 Charles A. Coffin · General Electric Company
15 Terence Conran · Habitat
16 Michael Dell · Dell
17 Walt Disney · The Walt Disney Co.
18 Dong Mingzhu · Gree Electric Appliances
19 James Dyson · Dyson
20 Thomas Edison · Edison General Electric Company
21 Henry Ford · Ford Motor Company
22 Bill Gates · Microsoft
23 Louis Gerstner · IBM
24 Carlos Ghosn · Renault-Nissan
25 King C. Gillette · Gillette
26 Bill Gore · W.L. Gore & Associates
27 Katharine Graham · The Washington Post Group
28 Philip Green · Arcadia
29 Andrew Grove · Intel
30 Romi Haan · Haan Corporation
31 John Harvey-Jones · ICI
32 Bill Hewlett & David Packard · Hewlett-Packard
33 Soichiro Honda · Honda
34 Tony Hsieh · LinkExchange; Zappos
35 Lee Iacocca · Ford; Chrysler
36 Mohamed ‘Mo’ Ibrahim · MSI; Celtel
37 Steve Jobs · Apple
38 Herb Kelleher · Southwest Airlines
39 Vinod Khosla · Sun Microsystems
40 Gerard Kleisterlee · Philips
41 Phil Knight · Nike
42 Koo In-hwoi · LG Corporation
43 Koo Bon-Moo · LG Corporation
44 Ray Kroc · McDonald’s
45 A.G. Lafley · Proctor & Gamble
46 Estée Lauder · Estée Lauder
47 Lee Byung-chull · Samsung
48 Robin Li · Baidu
49 Li Ka-shing · Hutchison Whampoa
50 Liu Chuanzhi · Lenovo Group
51 Liu Yonghao · New Hope
52 Olivia Lum · Hyflux
53 Ma Huateng · Tencent
54 Jack Ma · Alibaba
55 John Mackey · Whole Foods Market
56 Anand Mahindra · Mahindra & Mahindra
57 Annie Turnbo Malone · Poro
58 Michael Marks · Marks & Spencer
59 Konosuke Matsushita · Panasonic
60 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw · Biocon
61 William McKnight · The 3M Company
62 George W. Merck · Merck & Co
63 Lakshmi Mittal · ArcelorMittal
64 Sunil Bharti Mittal · Bharti Airtel
65 Akio Morita · Sony
66 Alan Mulally · Ford Motor Company
67 Anne Mulcahy · Xerox
68 Rupert Murdoch · News Corporation
69 N.R. Narayana Murthy · Infosys
70 Ning Gaoning · COFCO
71 Indra Nooyi · PepsiCo
72 Archie Norman · Asda
73 Jorma Ollila · Nokia
74 Larry Page · Google
75 Azim Premji · Wipro
76 Gina Rinehart · Hancock Prospecting
77 John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil
78 Anita Roddick · The Body Shop
79 Howard Schultz · Starbucks
80 Alfred P. Sloan · General Motors
81 Darwin Smith · Kimberley-Clark
82 Fred Smith · FedEx
83 Martin Sorrell · WPP Group
84 Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata · Tata Group
85 Ratan Tata · Tata Group
86 Kiichiro Toyoda · Toyota
87 Cornelius Vanderbilt · Steamships and railways
88 Sam Walton · Wal-Mart
89 Cher Wang · HTC
90 Wang Shi · China Vanke
91 Perween Warsi · S&A Foods
92 Thomas J. Watson · IBM
93 Jack Welch · General Electric
94 Meg Whitman · eBay
95 Jerry Yang · Yahoo!
96 Zhang Jindong · Suning Group
97 Zhang Ruimin · Haier
98 Zhang Yin · Nine Dragons Paper
99 Zong Qinghou · Wahaha
100 Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook