Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15, 1943) is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. She is also director and chair of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. Kanter was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and described…
Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina (born 8 March 1963) is a Russian Billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist, based in London, and was married to Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (from 1992 to 2010) until he died in 2019. She founded Inteco (1991), an…
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou ( born 14 February 1967) is a Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur. Born into a wealthy ship-owning family, he is best known for founding the low-cost airline easyJet and the Stelmar shipping line with start-up funds provided by his father, Loucas. easyJet’s foundation in 1995 marked the…
Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954) is an American businessman and motivational speaker. During the early 1980s, Gardner struggled with homelessness while raising a toddler son. He became a stockbroker and eventually founded his own brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co in 1987. In 2006, Gardner…
Lucinda “Cindy” Lee Gallop (born 1 February 1960)[1] is an English advertising consultant, founder and former chair of the US branch of advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and founder of the IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn companies. Gallop worked as a theatre publicist and…
Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American media mogul, co-founder and former CEO of the video-sharing websites YouTube and MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0’s “50 People Who Matter Now” list. In…
Theodore W. “Ted” Waitt (born January 18, 1963) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. On September 5, 1985, Waitt, his brother Norm Jr., and Mike Hammond started Gateway 2000. Labeled a maverick by national business and technology publications, he has gone on to…
Clara Chung-wai Shih (born January 11, 1982) is an American businesswoman. Born in Hong Kong, Shih and her family emigrated to Arlington Heights, Illinois when she was 4. Shih majored in economics and computer science; she graduated with honors with a bachelor’s degree and…
Celestine Ann Knowles (born January 4, 1954) is an American businesswoman and fashion designer known for her House of Deréon and Miss Tina by Tina Knowles fashion brands. She is the mother of singers Beyoncé Knowles and Solange Knowles, and, until 2011, was married to their father Mathew…
New Year is the time of day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar’s year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner, and the 1st day of January is often marked as a national holiday. In the Gregorian…
Michael Steven Ovitz (born December 14, 1946) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was a talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. Ovitz later served as President of The Walt Disney Company from October 1995…
Victor Kermit Kiam II (December 7, 1926 – May 27, 2001) was an American entrepreneur and TV spokesman for Remington Products, and the owner of the New England Patriots football team from 1988–1991. He was well-known for his turnaround of Remington’s fortunes, as well as…