Who built America? Who led the nation's businesses economically? What inspired them? What impact did they have? Who were they? Let's discuss all of the famous business leaders of the US here.
cofounder, chairman, and former ceo of microsoft. richest person in the world since 1995.
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the man who fostered industrialization, alexander hamilton. hamiltonians are the ones who led america away from jeffersonianism, or agriculture, clearing the way for modern corporate america and her skyscrapers.
Thomas J. Watson President of the International Business Machines (IBM). He developed IBMs effective management style and turned it into one of the greatest selling organizations ever seen. The company was originally named the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) but he renamed it to IBM. Most of their business was in punch card tabulating machines, which were loaned out.
Thomas J. Watson Jr. took over the presidency of IBM after his father. Until the late 1950s the U.S. Air Force SAGE computerized tracking system accounted for more than half of IBMs computer sales. The company made little profit on these sales. He knew the company was becoming outdated and believed in the production of electronic computers. He hired electrical engineers by the hundreds and put them to work designing mainframe computers.
I decided to focus more on women in business instead of specific business leaders. The National Association of Business Owners is an organization in the US that started in 1975. The purpose was to network the women-owned businesses (about 10.6 million) and to provided mutual support, share resources, and to provide a voice to help shape economic and public policy.
For business leaders, I would include Political Machines. They were the crooked political leaders who influenced factory businesses to cut the payments of their poor, immigrant employies who lived in the slums of NY. They were quite into business. People, such as Tweed, affected the lives of many people by embezzling* money from the City of NY and was then fired and thrown to jail, yet still relected as a city official.
Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by an individual in the United States. His great innovation was in the cheap and efficient mass production of steel rails for railroad lines. (wikipedia)
John D. Rockefeller born on July 8, 1839 to May 23,1937.
In 1862 he founded the Standard Oil Company and ran it until the late 1890s. Became the worlds richest man and first billionaire. Created modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy, creating foundations that had major impacts on medicine, education, and scientific research. He was instrumental in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever. In 1882 Rockefellers lawyers created an innovative form of partnership and created the Standard Oil Trust. Rockefellers Standard Oil held 90% of the market for kerosene products. Gave percentage of his earnings to churches, educational and public health causes, science and the arts.
Rockefeller revolutionized the oil industry and founded the Standard Oil Company. He was a smart business man and invested his money in petrolium and other things his company makes.
Jason Gould (1836-1892)- He was an American financier who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator.He built up a system of railroads in the midwest by gaining control of four western railroads. In 1880, he was in control of 10,000 miles of railway, about one-ninth of the railroads in the U.S. at that time, and by 1882 he had controlling interest in 15% of the countrys tracks. He also obtained a controlling interest in the Western Union telegraph company.
well, i guess i'll start off with finishing my assignment:
1.george washington, first president of the U.S. He was a wealthy land owner from Virginia. He owned many slaves in his home in Mount Vernon. He was involved in both the French and Indian war and the American Revolution, which he led victoriously.
2.alexander Hamilton was one of the leading authors of the federalist papers. He was the first secretary of treasury under george washington. He supported the funding of the national debt; federal assumption of the state debts; creation of a national bank; and a system of taxes through a tariff on imports and a tax on whiskey that would help pay for it. Hamilton also created the federalist party. Finally, he helped found the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures, a private corporation that would use the power of the falls to operate mills.
3.Andrew Carnegie was a scottish american industrialist. He was the founder of the Carnegie Steel company, which later became u.s. steel. He was a poor boy, who started off as a telegrapher, he was a self-made man. Later in his life, he gave away most of his riches to fund the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in Scotland, America, and worldwide.
4. John Piermont morgan, an american financer and banker, was one of the wealthiest men of his time. Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houson Electric Company to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company he merged the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses to form the United States Steel Corporation in 1901. He also financed manufacturing and mining businesses and controlled banks, insurance companies, shipping lines, and communications systems. Through his firm came enormous funds from abroad to help develop American resources.
5.John Davison rockerfeller sr. was an american industrialist and philantropist. in 1870, he founded the standard oil company until he retired in the late 1890's. He kept his stock and as gasoline grew in importance, his wealth soared and he became the world's richest man and first billionaire.
Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946 (despite the ages of his girlfriends) in Queens, NY. He is an American business executive, enterpreneur, television personality, and author. He is the CEO of Trump Organization, and the American-based real estate developer in the real estate market and the founder of Trump Entertainment, which operates gambling casinos.
