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Elizabeth Holmes
At age 19, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of college. Ten years later, she was the youngest woman in the world to become a self-made billionaire. She had entered Stanford University as a chemical engineering major, but after asking herself, "What is the greatest change I could make in the world?"…
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Tony Fadell
When the rest of the world was just waking up to the possibility of cell phones and the Internet, Tony Fadell was already creating the technology behind the smartphone. Author of more than 300 patents, he sold a microprocessor startup to Apple just as he was leaving college. He spent the next...
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Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller grew up in the restaurant business in Palm Beach, Florida, working his way up from dishwasher to cook. As a teenager, he fell in love with the art of French cooking, and learned his craft working in restaurants up and down the East Coast before moving to France to complete his...
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Jacqueline Novogratz - Part 1
A graduate of the University of Virginia and Stanford Business School, Jacqueline Novogratz began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank before founding Duterimbere, a micro-finance institution in Rwanda. She initiated and led The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next…
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Jacqueline Novogratz - Part 2
A graduate of the University of Virginia and Stanford Business School, Jacqueline Novogratz began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank before founding Duterimbere, a micro-finance institution in Rwanda. She initiated and led The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next…
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Ken Griffin
Today, Ken Griffin is the Chairman, President and CEO of Citadel Investment Group, the Chicago-based hedge fund that has grown into a global investment giant with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo, handling more than $20 billion in investment capital. A teenage computer whiz from...
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Michael Dell
When Michael Dell was a freshman at the University of Texas, his parents were concerned that his entrepreneurial interests would interfere with his pre-medical studies. When they paid him a surprise visit, he rushed to hide his inventory of computer parts in a friend's room. But before long, his...
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Social Entrepreneurship Panel - Part 1
At the 2007 International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C., the Academy of Achievement presented a panel discussion with social entrepreneurs who have founded nonprofit organizations to provide quality education or nutrition to disadvantaged youth. The panel includes Teach for America…
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Social Entrepreneurship Panel - Part 2
At the 2007 International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C., the Academy of Achievement presented a panel discussion with social entrepreneurs who have founded nonprofit organizations to provide quality education or nutrition to disadvantaged youth. The panel includes Teach for America…
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Social Entrepreneurship Panel - Part 3
At the 2007 International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C., the Academy of Achievement presented a panel discussion with social entrepreneurs who have founded nonprofit organizations to provide quality education or nutrition to disadvantaged youth. The panel includes Teach for America…
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Wendy Kopp - Part 1
As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Wendy Kopp created a plan to build a movement for educational equity by enlisting her generation's most promising future leaders to teach for two years in the nation's neediest urban and rural public schools. After graduation, Kopp set about making her...
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Wendy Kopp - Part 2
As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Wendy Kopp created a plan to build a movement for educational equity by enlisting her generation's most promising future leaders to teach for two years in the nation's neediest urban and rural public schools. After graduation, Kopp set about making her...
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Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen is an inventor, an entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for science and technology. His most famous invention may be the Segway powered scooter, but he holds more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for innovative medical devices that have expanded the frontiers of health...
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Larry Page
If you use the Internet, chances are you use Google every day. The search engine and the enormously successful company that shares its name were the creation of a pair of Stanford University graduate students still in their mid-20s, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It was Larry Page who first hit on…
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Michael Kaiser
Michael M. Kaiser is the President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. An honors graduate of Brandeis and the MIT Sloan School of Management, he studied vocal music, which instilled within him a passion for the arts. Kaiser hoped for a career as an opera...
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page
The most-used Web search service in the world, Google conducts more than a billion searches a day, in over 100 languages. Both the Google search engine and the enormously successful company that shares its name were the creation of two Stanford University graduate students, then in their mid-20s:...
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Leonard Lauder
Leonard Lauder is a renowned businessman and philanthropist, the longtime Chairman and CEO of the Estˆ©e Lauder Corporation. He studied business at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and at Columbia University before serving as an officer in the United States Navy. In 1958, he joined...
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Jeff Bezos
"I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online." In 1994, Jeff Bezos was a 30-year-old Vice President of a New York investment firm, newly married, with a secure and prosperous future ahead of him. He decided to give it all up and drive to Seattle with...
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Jacob Rothschild
As a member of a renowned international banking family, the financier Jacob Rothschild inherited a unique position in the world, he has used this position to preserve the world's cultural inheritance. As Chairman of Trustees of Britain's National Gallery from 1985 to 1991, Lord Rothschild…
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George Rathmann
Hailed as the father of the biotechnology industry, the technologist and entrepreneur George Rathmann was the founding CEO of Amgen Inc. A chemist with a Ph.D. from Princeton, he worked for 21 years at 3M, where he helped develop Scotchgard, among other products. In 1980, he left a secure job as...
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Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil has founded four successful businesses, all based on artificial intelligence technology he developed. He pioneered systems for optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, and speech recognition. He developed the CCD (charge-coupled device) flatbed scanner, and...
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Vinod Khosla
As a boy growing up in India, Vinod Khosla dreamed of becoming a new technology entrepreneur, although his family had no business or technology connections. After graduating with a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, he moved to the United States, where…
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Edward Lewis
Edward Lewis is the publisher of Essence magazine and the Chairman and CEO of Essence Communications, Inc. An All-City fullback at New York's DeWitt Clinton High School, he attended the University of New Mexico on a football scholarship. Inspired by a sympathetic professor, he earned degrees in...
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Kenan Sahin
Dr. Kenan Sahin is a highly successful entrepreneur, as well as a scientist, educator and philanthropist. Born in Turkey, Sahin earned science and management degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1960s. His doctoral research led to worldwide patents in areas relating…
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Abe Pollin
Abe Pollin (1923 - 2009) was Chairman and CEO of Washington Sports and Entertainment Limited Partnership (WSELP), longtime owner of the Washington Wizards basketball team and the Washington Capitals hockey franchise. A building contractor and real estate developer, as well as a sportsman and...
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Dr. Nathan P. Myhrvold
Dr. Nathan P. Myhrvold is the former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft and is the co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, which is building a large patent portfolio. He was a precocious student who began college at age 14, and studied mathematics, geophysics, and space physics at UCLA. Myhrvold...
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George Russell
When George F. Russell, Jr. joined his grandfather's brokerage and mutual fund company in 1958, it was a two-person operation. Two months later, his grandfather, Fran Russell died, and George found himself in charge of the struggling firm. In 1969, George Russell saw an opportunity to provide…
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Red McCombs
Billy Joe "Red" McCombs is the founder of the Red McCombs Automotive Group, the co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, a former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, and Minnesota Vikings, and the namesake of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Born...
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Robert McDermott
Brigadier General Robert F. McDermott (July 13, 1920 ’Ŭ August 28, 2006) was the Board Chairman and CEO of USAA, and first permanent Dean of Faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy, who was acclaimed as the "Father of Modern Military Education." He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1943,...
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Stephen Schwarzman - Part 1
At age 31, Stephen Schwarzman was Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, one of Wall Street's leading investment banking firms, but after merging Lehman with American Express, he chose to strike out on his own. With one partner, two employees and less than half a million in start-up cash, he set…
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Stephen Schwarzman - Part 2
At age 31, Stephen Schwarzman was Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, one of Wall Street's leading investment banking firms, but after merging Lehman with American Express, he chose to strike out on his own. With one partner, two employees and less than half a million in start-up cash, he set…
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Alice Waters
Owner of Chez Panisse, "the nation's most widely-acclaimed restaurant," Alice Waters led a culinary revolution that has transformed modern cooking. She first became inspired by great food and the culture surrounding it on a trip to France at age 19. After earning a degree in French Cultural…
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Fred Smith
Fred Smith, Chairman and CEO of Federal Express Corporation, is known as the "father of the overnight delivery business." A Marine Corps veteran who once teetered on the verge of bankruptcy, he is one of American business's greatest success stories. As an undergraduate at Yale, Fred Smith wrote a...
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Sean John Combs
Sean John Combs, also known by his stage name, Diddy (formerly Puff Daddy or P. Diddy), is an American rapper, singer, record producer and record company executive. Combs was born in Harlem, New York. His father, who had underworld ties, was shot to death when Sean was only three. The rest of the...
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F. Warren Hellman
F. Warren Hellman is the co-founder of Hellman & Friedman, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm, and of the nation's most sought-after financial advisers and investors. The scion of a socially prominent San Francisco family, he attended the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard...
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Jim Goodnight
James (Jim) Goodnight is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SAS Institute Inc., the largest privately-owned software company in the nation. He is the wealthiest person in North Carolina and one of the wealthiest men in the world, with a net worth of $7 billion. The son of a hardware store...
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John Hendricks
John Hendricks was a university fundraiser when he first conceived the idea for a cable television channel devoted to documentaries and educational programming. Borrowing against his home, he gathered $25 million from 30 individual investors and unveiled the Discovery Channel in 1985. Today,...
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Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oracle Corporation, the world's leading enterprise software company. A billionaire many times over, Ellison is one of the world wealthiest individuals. In 2000, he was estimated to be the richest man in the world. He achieved this...
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J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter, biologist and entrepreneur, was among the first scientists to sequence the human genome, an accomplishment he achieved at his own institute, completely independent of the federal government's human genome project. He first became involved with human genome research while working…
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Peter Haas
Peter Haas (1918 ’Ŭ 2005) was the chairman and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co., succeeding his father Walter A. Haas. The company was founded by his great-granduncle in 1850. Haas was the patriarch of the San Francisco family that controls Levi Strauss and spent the bulk of his 60-year career building...
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Tommy Hilfiger
Tommy Hilfiger is one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of American fashion. Growing up in Elmira, New York in the 1960s, he worked in clothing stores, learning the retail business from the ground up. At age 18, rather than going to college, he started his own business.…
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Douglas Carlston
In 1980, Douglas Carlston founded Broderbund Software, Inc., which quickly became the nation's leading developer of educational software. A pioneer in employing game technology, Carlston started the company as a sideline while practicing law. The company achieved major success with its geography...
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Lillian Vernon
A pioneer among women entrepreneurs, Lillian Vernon was the founder and longtime chairman of one of the nation's largest mail order businesses. Born in Germany, she and her parents came to America fleeing Nazi rule, and young Lillian learned her English watching movies. At 24, she was a housewife...
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Donna Karan
Karan began her career as an assistant designer with Anne Klein in the late 1960s, where she was eventually promoted to associate designer in 1971. When Anne Klein herself died in 1974, Takihyo Corporation of Japan became the new owner and Karan, together with her former classmate and friend…
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Rick Scott
Rick Scott was born in Bloomington, Illinois, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, where his father was a truck driver and his mother worked as a clerk at J.C. Penney, among other jobs. Scott graduated from high school in 1970, and then attended one year of community college after which he…
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James Wolfensohn
Sir James David Wolfensohn was the ninth President of the World Bank and President of Wolfensohn & Company, an international investment-banking firm. Wolfensohn was born in Sydney, Australia, entered Sydney University at age 15, and became a lawyer with a local firm. His initial ignorance of...
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Sumner Redstone
Sumner Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein) is a media magnate who owns and controls the National Amusements theater chain, and is the majority owner of CBS Corporation, Viacom, the MTV Network, BET, and the Paramount Pictures film studio. Redstone attended the Boston Latin School, where he...
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Thomas Pritzker
Thomas J. Pritzker is Executive Chairman of the Board of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and the Marmon Group. He is also Chairman and CEO of The Pritzker Organization, a family merchant bank. He was born and raised in Chicago and holds an MBA and a law degree from the University of Chicago. A scion of...
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Barry Diller
Barry Diller is one of the most successful media and entertainment entrepreneurs of our times. As Vice President of Development at ABC Television in the 1960s, he pioneered the Movie of the Week and miniseries formats. He led the struggling network to dominance with popular programs such as Happy...
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Bill Gates
In the last decades of the 20th century, a revolution in information technology transformed commerce and consciousness, just as the printing press transformed civilization 500 years before. These advances in computer technology and communications would have remained the province of professional...
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