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Thomas Adams, Jr.
American Chicle Company, 1899–1922

Howard L. Aller
American Power and Light Company, 1935–1951

Jules S. Bache
J. S. Bache & Company, 1892–1944

Ian K. Ballantine
Ballantine Books, 1952–1974

Louis F. Bantle
UST, 1973–1993

Enos M. Barton
Western Electric Company, 1886–1908

Edward Bausch
Bausch and Lomb Company, 1926–1935

Edward T. Bedford
Corn Products Refining Company, 1906–1930

Henry H. Benedict
Remington Typewriter Company, 1895–1913

William Bernbach
Doyle Dane Bernbach, 1949–1976

Stephen Birch
Kennecott Copper, 1915–1933

Clarence Birdseye
General Seafood's Company, 1924–1929

Harold Blancke
Celanese Corporation of America, 1946–1966

Fred J. Borch
General Electric Company, 1963–1972

James L. Broadhead
FPL Group, 1989–2000

Alvin G. Brush
American Home Products, 1935–1965

Arde Bulova
Bulova Watch Company, 1930–1958

Vincent A. Calarco
Crompton Corporation, 1985–2004

Floyd L. Carlisle
St. Regis Paper Company, 1916–1934

Willis H. Carrier
Carrier Corporation, 1914–1948

Richard W. Clark
Dick Clark Productions, 1956–2007

Ben Cohen
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, 1978–1994

John L. Collyer
B. F. Goodrich Company, 1939–1953

Herman Cone II
Cone Mills Corporation, 1938–1950

John T. Connor
Merck & Company, 1955–1964

Joseph F. Cullman III
Philip Morris Companies, 1957–1979

Francis B. Davis Jr.
United States Rubber Company, 1929–1942

Jerry Della Femina
Della Femina and Travisano, 1967–1986

Fred DeLuca
Subway Sandwiches, 1965–Present

Frank N. Doubleday
Doubleday and Company, 1897–1927

Nelson Doubleday
Doubleday and Company, 1928–1946

Donald W. Douglas
Douglas Aircraft Company, 1928–1957

Millard S. Drexler
Gap, 1995–2002

George Eastman
Eastman Kodak Company, 1881–1923

Michael D. Eisner
Walt Disney Company, 1984–2005

Lawrence J. Ellison
Oracle Corporation, 1977–Present

John A. Ewald
Avon Products, 1944–1967

Lothar W. Faber
Eberhard-Faber Company, 1898–1943

Walter A. Fallon
Eastman Kodak Company, 1972–1983

Henry M. Flagler
Florida East Coast Railway, 1886–1913

Edward A. Fox
Student Loan Marketing Association, 1973–1990

Clarence Francis
General Foods Corporation, 1935–1943

Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
Lehman Brothers and Company, 1994–2008

Richard M. Furlaud
Squibb Corporation, 1968–1989

Henry W. Gadsden
Merck & Company, 1965–1975

Frank E. Gannett
Gannett Company, 1906–1957

David L. Geffen
Geffen Records, 1984–1989

Richard L. Gelb
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, 1972–1994

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
IBM, 1993–2002

Vincent A. Gierer, Jr.
UST, 1993–Present

Harvey Golub
American Express Company, 1993–2001

J. Peter Grace
W. R. Grace and Company, 1945–1992

Katharine M. Graham
Washington Post, 1963–1979

Earl G. Graves
Black Enterprise Magazine, 1970–Present

Maurice R. Greenberg
American International Group, 1967–1989

Eugene P. Grisanti
International Flavors & Fragrances, 1985–1999

Robert C. Guccione
Penthouse International Limited, 1965–2003

William Guthy
Guthy-Renker Corporation, 1988–2004

Armand Hammer
Occidental Oil Company, 1957–1990

John R. Hegeman
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1891–1918

Paul C. Henshaw
Homestake Mining Company, 1971–1982

Alonzo B. Hepburn
Chase National Bank, 1904–1911

Elon H. Hooker
Hooker Chemical Company, 1909–1938

John J. Horan
Merck & Company, 1976–1985

George A. Hormel
Hormel and Company, 1891–1929

Amory Houghton
Corning Glass Company, 1930–1960

Amory Houghton, Jr.
Corning Glass Company, 1964–1982

Carl C. Icahn
Icahn & Company, 1968–Present

John E. Jonsson
Texas Instruments, 1951–1958

Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser Industries, 1914–1956

John A. Kimberly
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, 1880–1928

Anne Klein
Anne Klein & Company, 1968–1974

Joseph P. Knapp
Knapp & Company, 1891–1951

Richard J. Kogan
Schering-Plough Corporation, 1996–2003

William E. LaMothe
Kellogg Company, 1979–1991

William F. Laporte
American Home Products, 1965–1981

Ralph S. Larsen
Johnson & Johnson Company, 1989–2002

Estee Lauder
Estee Lauder, 1946–1982

Leonard A. Lauder
Estee Lauder, 1982–1999

Ralph Lauren
Polo, Ralph Lauren, 1968–Present

Rochelle Lazarus
Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, 1997–Present

Samuel J. Lefrak
Lefrak Organization, 1948–2003

Philip Lehman
Lehman Brothers and Company, 1901–1925

Robert Lehman
Lehman Brothers and Company, 1925–1969

William Levitt
Levitt & Sons, 1929–1968

Edward T. Lewis
Essence Communications, 1969–Present

Leroy A. Lincoln
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1936–1951

J. Bruce Llewellyn
Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company, 1985–Present

Marcus Loew
Loew's, 1906–1927

Francisco A. Lorenzo
Texas Air Corporation, 1972–1990

Robert P. Luciano
Schering-Plough Corporation, 1982–1995

Edgar F. Luckenbach, Jr.
Luckenbach Steamship Company, 1960–1974

Clifford D. Mallory
Mallory (C. D.) and Company, 1919–1941

Joseph A. Martino
National Lead Company (NL Industries), 1947–1969

David H. McConnell
Avon Products, 1886–1937

David H. McConnell, Jr.
Avon Products, 1937–1944

James H. McGraw
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1899–1928

Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1974–1983

Ward Melville
Melville Corporation, 1922–1963

George W. Merck
Merck & Company, 1925–1955

Roger Milliken
Milliken & Company, 1947–Present

Ambrose Monell
International Nickel Corporation, 1902–1917

John P. Morgan, Jr.
J. P. Morgan and Company, 1913–1935

Charles G. Mortimer
General Foods Corporation, 1954–1965

J. Richard Munro
Time Warner, 1980–1990

Thomas S. Murphy
Capital Cities/ABC, 1966–1990

Conde M. Nast
Conde Nast Publications, 1907–1942

Samuel I. Newhouse
Newhouse Publishing, 1921–1979

William H. Nichols
General Chemical Corporation, 1899–1920

Jean Nidetch
Weight Watchers International, 1963–1978

Edward J. Noble
Life Savers, 1913–1938

Lucio A. Noto
Mobil Corporation, 1994–1999

Warren H. Phillips
Dow Jones & Company, 1975–1990

Robert A. Pinkerton II
Pinkerton's, 1930–1966

Generoso P. Pope, Jr.
National Enquirer, 1952–1988

Ernesta G. Procope
E. G. Bowman, 1953–Present

James H. Rand, Jr.
Remington-Rand Company, 1925–1955

William B. Rayburn
Snap-On, 1984–1988

Robert E. Rich
Rich Products Corporation, 1945–1978

Leonard S. Riggio
Barnes & Noble, 1965–2002

David Rockefeller
Chase Manhattan Bank, 1969–1980

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Standard Oil of New Jersey, 1863–1912

Steven J. Ross
Warner Communications, 1962–1992

Joseph P. Routh
Pittston Company, 1939–1976

Margaret F. Rudkin
Pepperidge Farm, 1937–1960

Walter E. Sachs
Goldman, Sachs and Company, 1928–1959

Dorothy Schiff
New York Post, 1943–1976

Howard Schultz
Starbucks Corporation, 1987–2000

Barry Schwartz
Calvin Klein, 1968–Present

Edward I. Scott
Scott Tissue Company, 1879–1921

John R. Sculley
Apple Computer, 1983–1993

Clarence W. Seamans
Union Typewriter Company, 1893–1910

Robert B. Shetterly
Clorox Company, 1969–1980

Russell Simmons
Def Jam Records / Rush Communications, 1983–Present

Elwyn L. Smith
Smith-Corona-Marchant Corporation, 1951–1960

Hurlburt W. Smith
Smith-Corona (L. C.) Typewriter Company, 1924–1933

Elmer A. Sperry
Sperry Gyroscope Company, 1910–1929

Charles H. Steinway
Steinway and Sons, 1896–1919

Henry Z. Steinway
Steinway and Sons, 1957–1980

Theodore E. Steinway
Steinway and Sons, 1919–1957

David J. Stern
National Basketball Association, 1984–Present

Jack I. Straus
Macy (R. H.) and Company, 1940–1956

Jesse I. Straus
Macy (R. H.) and Company, 1919–1933

Seth E. Thomas, Jr.
Seth Thomas Clock Company, 1919–1931

Laurence A. Tisch
Loew's, 1961–1999

Donald J. Trump
Trump Organization, 1975–Present

Daniel P. Tully
Merrill Lynch & Company, 1993–1997

Guy W. Vaughan
Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Company, 1935–1949

Linda J. Wachner
Warnaco, 1986–Present

Henry G. Walter, Jr.
International Flavors & Fragrances, 1962–1985

J. Basil Ward
Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation, 1952–1966

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
IBM, 1914–1955

Sanford I. Weill
Travelers Group/CitiGroup, 1986–2003

Jann S. Wenner
Rolling Stone Magazine, 1967–Present

George Westinghouse
Westinghouse Electric Company, 1885–1911

Walter H. Wheeler, Jr.
Pitney-Bowes, 1938–1971

Charles Edward Wilson
General Electric Company, 1940–1950

Joseph C. Wilson II
Xerox Corporation, 1946–1971

Charles D. Wiman
Deere & Company, 1928–1955

Charles S. Woolworth
Woolworth (F. W.) and Company, 1919–1944

Frank W. Woolworth
Woolworth (F. W.) and Company, 1879–1919

Alan L. Wurtzel
Circuit City Stores, 1973–1986

Alfred M. Zeien
Gillette Company, 1991–1999

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