World changers : twenty-five entrepreneurs who changed business as we knew it / John A. Byrne.

Title
  1. World changers : twenty-five entrepreneurs who changed business as we knew it / John A. Byrne.
Published by
  1. New York : Portfolio / Penguin, c2011.
Author
  1. Byrne, John A.

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Description
  1. xi, 276 p. : portraits; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Presents a collection of interviews with the best and brightest entrepreneurs who have changed the way people live--including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Apple's Steve Jobs.
Subject
  1. Businesspeople > Biography
  2. Entrepreneurship
  3. Success in business
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies
Contents
  1. John Mackey : Whole Foods Market -- Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus : The Home Depot -- Reed Hastings : Netflix -- Howard Schultz : Starbucks -- Jeff Bezos : Amazon -- Herb Kelleher : Southwest Airlines -- Steve Jobs : Apple -- Herb Kohler Jr. : Kohler Co. -- Dan Lufkin : Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette -- Michael Dell : Dell Inc. -- Reid Hoffman : LinkedIn -- Bill Gates : Microsoft -- Sir Richard Branson : Virgin Group -- Oprah Winfrey : Harpo, Inc. -- Ted Turner : Turner Broadcasting -- Fred Smith : Fedex Corporation -- Narayana Murthy : Infosys -- Larry Page and Sergey Brin : Google -- Charles Schwab : The Charles Schwab Corporation -- Muhammad Yunus : Grameen Bank -- Ratan Tata : Tata Group -- Phil Knight : Nike -- Carlos Nuzman : Rio de Janeiro organizing committee for the Olympic Games -- Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook -- Eike Batista : EBX group.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
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