- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush. - Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson (born January 7, 1962) is an American financial businesswoman. She runs Fidelity Investments together with her father Edward Johnson. From the 2006 annual list of 400 richest Americans Abigail Johnson ranks 16th with $13 billion. She was ranked as the 28th richest person in the world in 2005 and the 5th richest woman by "Forbes" magazine's list of the world's richest people. Forbes calculated her net worth in 2005 at $12 billion. - Michael Kolowich
Michael Kolowich is a recognized pioneer and innovator in internet content, high-technology marketing, and application of digital video technology. He is currently president and executive producer of DigiNovations, which he founded in late 2001, and is architect and producer of “Mitt TV”, the acclaimed video website for the Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign. He has been a senior executive with Bain and Company, Lotus Development Corporation, Ziff-Davis Media, and AT&T. - Rick Wagoner
George Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Jr. (born February 9, 1953) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Rick Wagoner was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia and graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University in 1975 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977. After Harvard, he joined GM as an analyst in the treasurer's office. - Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005. - Robert McNamara
Robert Strange McNamara (born June 9, 1916) is an American business executive and a former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, during the Vietnam War. He resigned that position to become President of the World Bank (1968-1981). McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. - Michael Porter
Michael Eugene Porter is an American academic focused on management and economics. He has made important contributions to strategic management and strategy theory, Porter's main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. Porter's strategic system consists primarily of: * 5 forces analysis * strategic groups (also called strategic sets) * the value chain * the generic strategies of cost leadership, … - John Thain
John Thain is the current CEO of the New York Stock Exchange. Previously, Thain was both president and Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs, starting in July, 2003. Before that, he was co-COO for four years and spent the following five years as Chief Financial Officer. He was successful enough in the firm to amass $300 million in stock. John Thain's memberships include: MIT Corporation, Dean's Advisory Council – MIT Sloan School of Management, … - Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is a venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, California. He was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Syracuse University in 1948 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1951. Rock started his career in 1951 as a security analyst in New York City, … - John Doerr
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a successful venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. Doerr obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. - Meg Whitman
Another dreamy CEO choice, except she has already been a big company CEO at eBay (EBAY), has proved her mettle in building it to a powerhouse-despite the online auction site's currently harder times-and has the giant fortune to prove it. And, oh yes, she is likely to be using that pile of cash to run for governor of California, on the Republican ticket. - A. G. Lafley
Alan George Lafley (born June 13, 1947) is the CEO and an executive director of Procter & Gamble. He joined P&G upon his graduation, in 1977. He assumed the CEO office in 2000. He is American and was born in Keene, New Hampshire. He graduated from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois and received a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1969 and a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977 (after serving in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War). - Stan O'Neal
E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006. - Chet Edwards
Thomas Chester "Chet" Edwards (born November 24, 1951) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing a district based in Waco, Texas. He represented Texas's 11th District from 1991 to 2005, and since 2005 has represented the 17th District. A resident of Waco, his district includes the town of Crawford, the home of President George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch, … - Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Inc. Before that she served as Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. Sandberg previously served as chief of staff to Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers from 1999 to 2001. She joined Google after the administration of George W. Bush came into office and both Summers and his team left the Treasury. - Robert Kraft
Robert K. Kraft, (born June 5, 1941 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of the Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper & packaging, sports & entertainment, real estate development and a private equity portfolio. His best known and most visible assets are the National Football League's New England Patriots and Major League Soccer's New England Revolution, as well as the stadium where they play, Gillette Stadium. - Frank J. Caufield
Frank Caufield has been active in the venture capital field since the early 1970s. He is a Co-Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mr. Caufield has served on the boards of Quantum Corporation, Caremark Inc., AOL Inc., Megabios, Verifone Inc., Wyse Technology, Quickturn Corporation and Time Warner as well as many other private and public companies. - William Proxmire
Edward William Proxmire was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. - Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, BA, LL.B, MBA, LL.D (born July 26, 1928, in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985. Lougheed is the grandson of Sir James Alexander Lougheed. In 1950, he received a BA degree, and in 1952, he received a LL.B degree, both from the University of Alberta. - Jeffrey Skilling
Jeffrey Keith "Jeff" Skilling (born November 25, 1953) was the CEO of Enron Corporation in 2001. He was convicted in 2006 of multiple federal felony charges relating to Enron's financial collapse, and is currently serving a 24-year, 4-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Waseca in Waseca, Minnesota. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
Stephen A. Schwarzman (born 14 February 1947) is the Chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group private-equity firm. - Fred Haise
Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (pronounced 'Hayes') (born November 14 1933) is a former NASA astronaut. Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He attended Biloxi High School and Perkinston Junior College (now Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College). He graduated with honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959. - Bruce Wasserstein
Bruce Wasserstein (born December 25, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American investment banker and businessman. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and is currently the Chairman and CEO of Lazard LLC. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife, Lola Schleifer, Wasserstein is one of five children. - James McNerney
Walter James "Jim" McNerney, Jr., is an American businessman. On June 30, 2005 he was named the CEO of The Boeing Company. Prior to that, McNerney was the Chairman and Chief Executive of 3M. He had been a member of the Boeing board of directors since 2001. He is also a member of the board of directors of Procter & Gamble. McNerney is a current member of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees. McNerney, 57, oversees the strategic direction of the Chicago-based, … - Mark Walsh
Mark Walsh is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. Walsh is the managing partner of Ruxton Ventures, LLC, a private equity and investment firm he founded in early 2001. He is also a senior executive fellow at the University of Maryland's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. His former jobs include CEO of VerticalNet, America Online executive, and president of GEnie. - Dan Bricklin
Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned by Web.com. Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, where he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy during his High School years. - Gordon Bethune
Gordon M. Bethune (born August 1941) is the chairman of the board of Aloha Airgroup, parent company of Aloha Airlines. He was CEO of Continental Airlines from 1994 until his retirement at the end of 2004. From 1996 on, he also served as chairman of the board at that airline. He also serves on the boards of Honeywell, Sprint Nextel, Prudential Financial, and the Wills Group. Prior to joining Continental, he was an executive at Boeing. - Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky, president and CEO of Handspring, Inc. and former president of Palm Computing, speaks about her career. Topics include: early... - Daniel Vasella
Daniel Lucius Vasella MD (born 1953) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG. He is married and has three children. The Time Magazine included Vasella in its list of 100 most influential people of 2004. He completed the Program for Management Development (PMD) at Harvard Business School in 1989. Articles: Patents help in the long run Article in Mint - Stephen Covey
Stephen R. Covey (born October 24 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the author of the international best selling book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", first published in 1989. Other books he has written include "First Things First", "Principle-Centered Leadership" and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families". His latest book is "The 8th Habit", published in 2004. - Chris Cox
Charles Christopher Cox (born October 16, 1952 in St. Paul, Minnesota) has served as Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since August 4, 2005. He had served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1989 to August 2, 2005, representing three successive districts in southern California. He resigned from Congress to become chairman. - Elaine Chao
Elaine Lan Chao (born March 26, 1953) currently serves as the 24th United States Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of President of the United States George W. Bush. She is the first Asian American woman and first Taiwanese American to be appointed to a President's Cabinet in American history. Chao is the President's only original cabinet member, making her the longest serving cabinet member during President Bush's administration. - William Anders
William Alison Anders (born October 17, 1933) is a former United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Anders was born in Hong Kong and was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1955 and a master of science degree in nuclear engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in 1962. - Jamie Dimon
James "Jamie" Dimon (born March 13, 1956) became CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. on January 1, 2006. He succeeded William B. Harrison, Jr., who became the company's chairman. Dimon succeeded Harrison as Chairman of JPMorgan on January 1, 2007, following Harrison's retirement. - Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., KBE, (born in Mineola, New York on March 1, 1942) was chairman of the board of IBM from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002. He also served as chief executive officer until March 2002. In January 2003, he assumed the position of chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm located in Washington, DC. He was formerly CEO of RJR Nabisco, and also held senior positions at American Express and McKinsey & Company. - Scott Cook
Scott Cook (Intuit, Inc.), HBS 1976, started his career at Procter & Gamble, where he learned about product development, market research, and marketing. He soon began using the insights he was learning there to look for an idea for a company of his own. That idea came to him one day when his wife was complaining about paying the bills. With personal computers just coming out at the time, … - Robert Louis-Dreyfus
Robert Louis-Dreyfus is a French billionaire. Mr. Louis-Dreyfus joined the family company, Louis Dreyfus Group in May 2000. He was chairman of Neuf Telecom until 2004 and serves on the board of directors of Neuf Cegetel. Up to February 2001, he was also the chief executive officer of Adidas-Salomon, the German-based sporting goods maker. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Louis-Dreyfus served as chief executive officer at Saatchi & Saatchi, the UK-based advertising agency. - John C. Whitehead
John Cunningham Whitehead (b. April 2 1922, Evanston, Illinois) is currently the chairman of the LMDC and World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. Whitehead graduated from Haverford College in 1943 and served in the Navy during World War II, where he participated in the D-Day landing. Later he joined the prestigious New York investment bank of Goldman Sachs, … - Fred Reichheld
Frederick F. Reichheld (born 1952, Cleveland) is an United States business author and business strategist best known for his research and writing on the loyalty business model and Loyalty Marketing. His books include "The Loyalty Effect" (1996), "Loyalty Rules!" (2001), and "The Ulimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth" (2006). He has also authored articles for business publications such as "Harvard Business Review". - Paul Antony
Paul Antony (1962-), MD, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) serving as PhRMA’s principal advocate on all health care and medical policy issues. Dr. Antony is a board-certified specialist in aerospace medicine. He received his doctor of medicine and master of public health degrees from the George Washington University School of Medicine and now serves on its faculty in the department of Microbiology, Immunology, …
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