Acknowledgements ix Introduction x 1 Dhirubhai Ambani • Reliance Industries 1 2 Bernard Arnault • LMVH 3 3 Mary Kay Ash • Mary Kay Cosmetics 5 4 Vinita Bali • Britannia Industries 8 5 Jeff Bezos • Amazon 10 6 Sara Blakely • Spanx 13 7 William Boeing • Boeing 16 8 Richard Branson • Virgin Group 18 9 Warren Buffett • Berkshire Hathaway 21 10 Andrew Carnegie • Carnegie Steel 24 11 Dhanin Chearavanont • Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group 26 12 Eva Chen • Trend Micro 29 13 Chung Ju-yung • Hyundai 31 14 Charles A. Coffi n • General Electric Company 34 15 Terence Conran • Habitat 36 16 Michael Dell • Dell 39 17 Walt Disney • The Walt Disney Co. 42 18 Dong Mingzhu • Gree Electric Appliances 45 19 James Dyson • Dyson 47 20 Thomas Edison • Edison General Electric Company 50 21 Henry Ford • Ford Motor Company 52 22 Bill Gates • Microsoft 55 vi • 100 GREAT BUSINESS LEADERS 23 Louis Gerstner • IBM 58 24 Carlos Ghosn • Renault-Nissan 60 25 King C. Gillette • Gillette 63 26 Bill Gore • W.L. Gore & Associates 65 27 Katharine Graham • The Washington Post Group 68 28 Philip Green • Arcadia 70 29 Andrew Grove • Intel 73 30 Romi Haan • Haan Corporation 75 31 John Harvey-Jones • ICI 78 32 Bill Hewlett & David Packard • Hewlett-Packard 80 33 Soichiro Honda • Honda 83 34 Tony Hsieh • LinkExchange; Zappos 86 35 Lee Iacocca • Ford; Chrysler 89 36 Mohamed ‘Mo’ Ibrahim • MSI; Celtel 91 37 Steve Jobs • Apple 94 38 Herb Kelleher • Southwest Airlines 97 39 Vinod Khosla • Sun Microsystems 99 40 Gerard Kleisterlee • Philips 102 41 Phil Knight • Nike 104 42 Koo In-hwoi • LG Corporation 107 43 Koo Bon-Moo • LG Corporation 110 44 Ray Kroc • McDonald’s 113 45 A.G. Lafl ey • Procter & Gamble 116 46 Estée Lauder • Estée Lauder 119 47 Lee Byung-chull • Samsung 121 48 Robin Li • Baidu 124 49 Li Ka-shing • Hutchison Whampoa 127 50 Liu Chuanzhi • Lenovo Group 129 100 GREAT BUSINESS LEADERS • vii 51 Liu Yonghao • New Hope 132 52 Olivia Lum • Hyfl ux 135 53 Ma Huateng • Tencent 137 54 Jack Ma • Alibaba 140 55 John Mackey • Whole Foods Market 142 56 Anand Mahindra • Mahindra & Mahindra 145 57 Annie Turnbo Malone • Poro 147 58 Michael Marks • Marks & Spencer 149 59 Konosuke Matsushita • Panasonic 152 60 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw • Biocon 154 61 William McKnight • The 3M Company 157 62 George W. Merck • Merck & Co 159 63 Lakshmi Mittal • ArcelorMittal 162 64 Sunil Bharti Mittal • Bharti Airtel 164 65 Akio Morita • Sony 167 66 Alan Mulally • Ford Motor Company 170 67 Anne Mulcahy • Xerox 172 68 Rupert Murdoch • News Corporation 175 69 N.R. Narayana Murthy • Infosys 178 70 Ning Gaoning • COFCO 180 71 Indra Nooyi • PepsiCo 183 72 Archie Norman • Asda 185 73 Jorma Ollila • Nokia 188 74 Larry Page • Google 190 75 Azim Premji • Wipro 193 76 Gina Rinehart • Hancock Prospecting 196 77 John D. Rockefeller • Standard Oil 198 78 Anita Roddick • The Body Shop 202 Howard Schultz • Starbucks 204 80 Alfred P. Sloan • General Motors 207 81 Darwin Smith • Kimberley-Clark 210 82 Fred Smith • FedEx 212 83 Martin Sorrell • WPP Group 215 84 Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata • Tata Group 217 85 Ratan Tata • Tata Group 220 86 Kiichiro Toyoda • Toyota 222 87 Cornelius Vanderbilt • Steamships and railways 224 88 Sam Walton • Wal-Mart 227 89 Cher Wang • HTC 230 90 Wang Shi • China Vanke 232 91 Perween Warsi • S&A Foods 235 92 Thomas J. Watson • IBM 237 93 Jack Welch • General Electric 240 94 Meg Whitman • eBay 243 95 Jerry Yang • Yahoo! 245 96 Zhang Jindong • Suning Group 247 97 Zhang Ruimin • Haier 250 98 Zhang Yin • Nine Dragons Paper 253 Zong Qinghou • Wahaha 255 100 Mark Zuckerberg • Facebook 257 Sources and Further Reading 260 About the Author 276 100 GREAT BUSINESS LEADERS • v CONTENTS