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

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

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Description
xi, 276 p. : portraits; 24 cm.
Summary
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
  • Businesspeople > Biography
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Success in business
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9781591844501 (alk. paper)
  • 1591844509 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011036087
OCLC
707969084
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library