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Author:

Byrne, John A.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Portfolio / Penguin,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

276 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Businesspeople--Biography.
Entrepreneurship.
Success in business.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface -- Prologue -- 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 -- Notes.

ISBN:

1591844509
9781591844501 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2011036087

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)