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Robert A. Pinkerton II
Pinkerton grew his grandfather's private investigating firm into a large security services company, providing such new services as event security, jewel thief investigation, and industrial building security. Such expansion allowed the... View Details
Keywords: Services
Herman Cone II
Cone consolidated all of the Cone companies under one corporation. The new Cone Mills Corporation had 18 plants, including the huge White Oak plant in Greensboro, the largest denim manufacturer in the world. In 1950, Cone Mills had $163... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Maurice R. Greenberg
Greenberg helped grow American International Group into one of the world-wide leaders in insurance and financial services. Greenberg grew American International Group almost entirely internally, using his own, in-house trained managers to exploit View Details
Keywords: Finance
William E. LaMothe
LaMothe enabled Kellogg to capitalize on the health food consciousness of the 80’s by introducing new products, and, in so doing, he continued Kellogg’s 41-year run of increased sales. He is credited with dramatically expanding Kellogg’s... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
James L. Broadhead
Broadhead reshaped the FPL Group to be more competitive through a major streamlining program. He eliminated 80% of the corporate procedures and shortened the remaining 20%. Under Broadhead's tenure, FPL’s customers bought their electric power for 10% less than they... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Though Watson had to personally secure a loan to reshape the company’s finances, he turned it around in a matter of years and officially incorporated it as International Business Machines in 1923. Over the next 30 years of Watson’s tenure, IBM brought out a wide array... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Linda J. Wachner
Wachner’s first success in fashion came in the mid-1970s while she was working in Warnaco’s lingerie division, Wagner’s. Perceiving that it was their uncomfortable and unfeminine design that made women “burn their bras,” Wachner redesigned softer, free form bras that... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Guy W. Vaughan
Vaughan was instrumental in the creation of products such as the Wright Whirlwind J-6 plane, used by Charles Lindbergh, and the Wright Cyclone engine series, which were used in DC-1 aircraft. Vaughan’s real achievements, however, came during World War II, when he... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Joseph P. Routh
When Routh assumed the position of President in 1938, Pittston’s coal and oil production businesses were generating $26 million in revenues and losing approximately $1 million on the bottom-line. Through shrewd investments and tight financial controls, Routh created a... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
The company Rockefeller started at age 23, Standard Oil, came to hold a virtual monopoly on the American oil industry. He maintained control of Standard Oil until its eventual break-up by the U.S. government. The company was so successful that through its dissolution,... View Details
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Stephen Birch
Under Birch’s direction, Kennecott Copper experienced impressive growth. In 1915, the firm had 450 employees and $11 million in sales. By the time of Birch’s death in 1940, Kennecott Copper had nearly 29,000 employees and sales in excess of $177 million. Kennecott... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Conde M. Nast
Nast transformed his first magazine, Vogue, from a low revenue and low readership publication into a premier fashion magazine that generated millions in revenues. Such turnarounds were typical of most Nast publications, including Glamour and Home and Garden. In... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Thomas S. Murphy
At the age of 29, Murphy took control of a nearly bankrupt television station in Albany, NY, that would become a launching point for a media empire worth over $5 billion. Through successfully acquiring and integrating over 30 media companies (newspapers, TV and radio... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Edward T. Lewis
Lewis was publisher of Essence Magazine, the first black high-fashion magazine. First published in 1970, the magazine had a circulation of 850,000 by 1988. With the magazine as its base business, Essence Communications has successfully expanded into other media... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Rochelle Lazarus
Lazarus introduced “360-degree branding” to the advertising world: assuring that the client makes a significant impression every time they communicate with their customers. Lazarus has been a driving force in building and overseeing Ogilvy’s blue-chip clientele... View Details
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Richard J. Kogan
After spending a lengthy career at a smaller pharmaceutical firm, Kogan joined Schering-Plough in 1982. Throughout the next several years, he was a part of a group of executives that helped raise revenues from $1.8 billion in 1982 to $4.5 billion in 1994. Kogan... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Joseph P. Knapp
Knapp took control of his father's small printing operation and transformed it into a publishing empire. He established the American Lithographic Company in 1895 where he invented a multicolor six cylinder press. He used this press to produce the first Sunday newspaper... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Anne Klein
Klein played a major role in re-inventing the fashion industry. She founded Junior Sophisticates, where the clothing had classic lines, and incorporated this look in Anne Klein and Company when it began in 1968. Klein’s unique style of interchangeable separates was... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser successfully built a highly diversified construction business consisting of 82 companies. His company handled millions of dollars of highway and bridge construction as well as several dams (e.g. Hoover Dam), levees and pipelines in the United States, Canada and... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
John J. Horan
Through heavy investments in research and development, Horan led Merck to become the leading U.S.-based manufacturer of prescription drugs in the world. Under Horan’s leadership, Merck doubled their spending on research – spending more than any other pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare