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Steve Jobs (Apple)
Innovation: responsible for changing the way the world works and plays
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Bill Gates (Microsoft)
Innovation: established the software industry
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Sir Richard Branson (Virgin)
Innovation: maverick business sense and enterprises - all successful
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Henry Ford (Ford Motor Company)
Innovation: inventor of the moving assembly line
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Ray Kroc (McDonald's)
Innovator: turned a small, family owned drive in into a multi-billion-dollar global franchise.
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Jim Buckmaster (Craigslist)
Innovation: Craigslist is the world’s premiere classifieds service
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Roman Abramovich (oil magnate)
Innovation: impressed the world with daring and surprising business decisions
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Rupert Murdoch (Media Mogul)
Innovation: balanced media and political interests
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Andrew Carnegie (Early Business Genius)
Innovation: developed markets and invested heavily in new technologies,
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Arkadi Kuhlmann (ING Direct)
Innovation: a bank without ATM machines or brick-and-mortar branches plus all transactions are carried out electronically, without minimum deposits or customer fees.
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Chris Albrecht (Home Box Office)
Innovation; led HBO in TV programming as the premier channel for original programming
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12.
Michael Dell (Dell)
Innovation: cutting out the middle man and selling PCs directly to consumers, plus allowing them to custom order machines by phone and mail.
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Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Innovation: amazon.com (a pioneering etailer which has also transformed web comerce through exploring and mainstreaming technologies)
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google)
Innovation: Google (the world's best search engine)
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Ingvar Kamprad & Family (IKEA)
Innovation: stylish, original furniture that are easy to take home and put together.
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Chad Meredith Hurley (YouTube)
Innovation: YouTube - a better way to share home videos. Sold to Google for $1.65 billion.
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Jack Welch (General Electric)
Innovation: streamlining GE and brining the value of GE up from $12 billion to $280 billion, the largest increase for any company under any CEO
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Sam Walton (Wal-Mart)
Innovation: establishing an innovative and daring approach to business (Wal-Mart)
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Donald Trump (Real Estate Mogul )
Innovation: widely regarded as a man who makes the rules
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Steve Wynn (The Mirage, Treasure Island, and Bellagio - Las Vegas Hotels)
Innovation: transformed the Las Vegas landscape
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