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List of the most influential people in Business,

#1151

P. Christopher Earley

#184345

Overall Influence

#1152

Mark Price, Baron Price

#178316

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Mark Ian Price, Baron Price is a British businessman, Founder of WorkL for Business and WorkL, Chairman of Fair Trade UK, writer, President of the Chartered Management Institute and member of the House of Lords. He was a former Managing Director of Waitrose, and Deputy Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership. He joined the Conservative government as the Minister of State for Trade and Investment in April 2016.

#1153

Jean-Claude Usunier

#141051

Overall Influence

1929 - 2005 (76 years)

Jean-Claude Usunier is an Honorary Professor of Marketing at HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, and author of various books on marketing and culture, including International Marketing: A Cultural Approach, Marketing Across Cultures and International and Cross-Cultural Management Research.

#1154

John C. Green

#184388

Overall Influence

#1155

Stephanie Constant

Stephanie Constant

#161979

Overall Influence

Stephanie L. Constant is an American immunologist and science administrator. She was an associate professor at George Washington University and a scientific review officer at National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute before becoming chief of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Office of Scientific Review in 2017.

#1156

Luitgard Veraart

#47271

Overall Influence

Luitgard Anna Maria Veraart is a German applied mathematician specialising in mathematical finance, and particularly in assessing, modeling, and managing the risks associated with financial networks. She is a professor of mathematics at the London School of Economics.

#1157

Chellie Spiller

#177311

Overall Influence

Chellie Margaret Spiller is a New Zealand academic and is of Māori descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato. Academic career After a 2010 PhD titled 'How Māori cultural tourism businesses create authentic and sustainable well-being' at the University of Auckland, Spiller rose to full professor at the University of Waikato.

#1158

Robert Huttenback

#101457

Overall Influence

1928 - 2012 (84 years)

Robert Arthur Huttenback was the third Chancellor of UC Santa Barbara from 1977 to 1986. He was ousted from the post in July 1986 after allegations that he and his wife Freda had embezzled more than $170,000 from the university to perform renovations on their home. After two UC presidents testified against him, Huttenback and his wife were convicted by a Santa Maria jury in July 1988.

#1159

Kevin Werbach

#176775

Overall Influence

Kevin Werbach is an American academic, businessman and author. In 2002, he founded the Supernova Group, a technology analysis and consulting firm. Since 2004, Werbach is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He writes about business, policy, and social implications of emerging Internet and communications technologies.

#1160

J. Sterling Livingston

J. Sterling Livingston

#183219

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

J. Sterling Livingston was an American entrepreneur, management consultant, and professor at the Harvard Business School for 25 years. Early life Sterling was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 7, 1916, and grew up in and near Chino, Glendale and Pomona, California. He worked as a wiper on board a cargo ship, then attended Glendale Junior College, the University of Southern California and the Harvard Business School, where he received his Master of Business Administration in 1940. During the Second World War he taught the Navy Supply Corps.

#1161

Francesco Cesareo

#86288

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Francesco C. Cesareo is an American academic administrator and historian who has served as the president of Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts since October 12, 2007. Cesareo is also the chairman of the National Review Board since 2013.

#1162

Leonard M. Pike

#133456

Overall Influence

1940 - 2019 (79 years)

Leonard M. Pike was an American agricultural scientist who established the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center at Texas A&M University in 1992 and created the 1015 sweet onion and the BetaSweet maroon carrot.

#1163

Yan Xiao

#184900

Overall Influence

#1164

Ashok Kumar Gupta

#184934

Overall Influence

#1165

Jason Young

#168892

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (38 years)

Jason Young is an English mixed martial artist. He currently trains at Team Titan and American Top Team. Early life Born in Lewisham, England, Young started fighting at age 17 to stay out of trouble in the streets. Before he started fighting professionally, Young worked as a plasterer.

#1166

Steve White

#176848

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Steve White is an American actor and comedian, best known for his roles in Spike Lee films. Career White has worked with Spike Lee five times . From 1992 to 1997, White performed stand-up comedy on Russell Simmons's Def Comedy Jam on HBO and he also had a recurring role on the ABC comedy series Hangin' With Mr. Cooper. Steve was most recently one of the guest announcers on The Price Is Right. He also had guest appearances on 1990s black sitcom Living Single & Martin, which both aired on the Fox Network respectively.

#1167

Cindy Lee

#175248

Overall Influence

Cindy Lee is a Canadian businesswoman who founded T&T Supermarket, the largest retail grocery chain in Canada that sells Asian foodstuffs. She became president and CEO in 1993. Lee retired as CEO in 2014 and was succeeded by her daughter, Tina Lee. Cindy Lee sits on T&T Supermarkets' board of directors. Her other daughter, Tiffany Shao-Chin Lee, is corporate counsel for online grocer Thrive Market in Los Angeles, California.

#1168

Luk N. Van Wassenhove

#185318

Overall Influence

#1169

Clark Gilbert

#177295

Overall Influence

Clark G. Gilbert has been a general authority seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2021 and the Church Commissioner of Education since August of that year. He was the president of BYU–Pathway Worldwide , an online higher education organization, from its creation in 2017 until August 2021. He was serving as the sixteenth president of Brigham Young University–Idaho when he was appointed inaugural president of BYU–PW. Previously, Gilbert served as president and CEO of both the Deseret News and Deseret Digital Media, having also served as an executive vice pres...

#1170

Deborah Levy

#185375

Overall Influence

Deborah Susan Levy is a New Zealand business academic specialising in property and real estate. Academic career After an undergraduate at the University of Aberdeen, Levy wrote a PhD thesis Conceptualising the influence of clients on valuations at the University of Auckland. She has been a full professor at that institution in 2015.

#1171

R. Edward Freeman

#185432

Overall Influence

#1172

Dave Yeske

#181876

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Dave Yeske is an American financial planner, researcher, and educator. He is particularly known for his research and writing in the areas of Policy-Based Financial Planning and Strategy-Making by financial planners. Yeske is co-founder and a managing director of Yeske Buie, a wealth management firm; a past national president of the Financial Planning Association; and currently holds an appointment as Distinguished Adjunct Professor in Golden Gate University's Ageno School of Business where he served as director of the school's financial planning degree program from 2014 to 2023.

#1173

Vivek Wadhwa

#174716

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Vivek Wadhwa is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and academic. He is Distinguished Fellow & Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Engineering at Silicon Valley and Distinguished Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He is also author of books Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain—and How to Fight Back, Driver in the Driverless Car, Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, and Immigrant Exodus.

#1174

Barbara Monroe

#149618

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Dame Barbara Monroe, is a British social worker and hospital chief executive. She began working at St Christopher's Hospice in 1987, rising to the position of Chief Executive in 2000 and retiring in 2014.

#1175

Wiebe Draijer

#171844

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Wiebe Draijer is a Dutch engineer, civil servant and management consultant who served as Chairman of the Social and Economic Council from 2012 to 2014. Since 1 October 2014, he has been CEO of the Rabobank.

#1176

Catherine Beaudry

#144853

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Catherine Beaudry is a Canadian social scientist, currently a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair at Polytechnique Montréal. She is an alumnus of the Global Young Academy from 2010 to 2014. She completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering with a specialization in satellite technology at Polytechnique Montréal followed by graduate and doctoral studies in economics at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

#1177

William Gartner

#184693

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

William B. Gartner is an American Professor of entrepreneurship. He is known for his research on new venture creation and entrepreneurial behavior, for which he has received several awards, including the Heizer Doctoral Dissertation Award and the FSFNUTEK International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research . Gartner was one of the pioneering entrepreneurship research scholars in the 1980s, when there was a shift of focus in the field from studying the individual traits of the entrepreneur to regarding entrepreneurship as a behavioral process.

#1178

James R. Leininger

#172389

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

James Richard Leininger is an American physician, businessman and conservative and Christian activist from San Antonio, Texas. Biography Early life and education Reared in Indiana and Florida, Leininger attended Indiana University in Indianapolis, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and an M.D. in 1969. Following a two-year internship at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, he completed post-graduate courses at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Walter Reed Army ...

#1179

Thomas William Walker

Thomas William Walker

#93585

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

Thomas William Walker, ONZM was an Anglo-New Zealand soil scientist. He was known as "Tom" or "John" or "Johnnie" after the Johnnie Walker brand of whisky, or "The Prof" to students and latterly viewers of Maggie's Garden Show. To his family he was "Baba".

#1180

Yuli Raizman

#103832

Overall Influence

1903 - 1994 (91 years)

Yuli Yakovlevich Raizman was a Soviet Russian film director and screenwriter. Career In 1924 he became a literary consultant for Mezhrabpom-Rus, the German-Russian film studio. He was assigned as assistant to Yakov Protazanov in 1925 and made his directorial debut in 1927 with The Circle, first drawing attention the following year with Penal Servitude. His next success was The Earth Thirsts in 1930, the Soviet Union's first sound film.

#1181

Bert Rosenbloom

#185839

Overall Influence

Bert Rosenbloom is an American business professor and author, currently the J. Ronald Rauth Chair of Marketing Management at Bennett S. LeBow College of Business, Drexel University.

#1182

David Ross

#180196

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

David Peter John Ross is an English millionaire businessman, and one of the co-founders of Carphone Warehouse. At the peak of his business interests in 2008, Ross was one of the 100 richest people in the United Kingdom. In 2008, Forbes ranked him #843 in the world's richest billionaires; his net worth was estimated at US$1.4 billion. In April 2015, The Sunday Times estimated his net worth at £1.0 billion. In the 2020 edition of the Sunday Times Rich List, his net worth was estimated at £642 million, a £26 million decrease from the previous year.

#1183

Douglas West

#185980

Overall Influence

#1184

Lisa Marriott

#174638

Overall Influence

Lisa Marriott is a New Zealand accounting academic. She is currently a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career After working in the private sector in the UK and the public sector in New Zealand, Marriott did a 2008 PhD titled 'The Politics of Retirement Savings Taxation: a Trans-Tasman Comparison' at Victoria University of Wellington before joining the staff and rising to full professor.

#1185

Hideaki Anno

#171568

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Hideaki Anno is a Japanese animator, filmmaker and actor. His most celebrated creation, the Evangelion franchise, has had a significant influence on the anime television industry and Japanese popular culture, with many deeming Anno as one of the medium's first auteurs. Anno's style is defined by his postmodernist approach and the extensive portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions, often through unconventional scenes presenting the mental deconstruction of those characters.

#1186

Susan Elliott

#123724

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Susan Leigh Elliott is an Australian academic specialising in medical education. Since 2017, she has served as the deputy vice-chancellor and vice-president for education at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She was previously the deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Melbourne.

#1187

Charles M. Roessel

#169811

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Charles Monty Roessel is a Navajo photographer, journalist and academic administrator. Roessel served as Director of the Bureau of Indian Education from 2013 until 2016. He currently serves as the president of Diné College.

#1188

Stefan Persson

#176282

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Carl Stefan Erling Persson is a Swedish billionaire businessman. In March 2013, Forbes reported Persson's net worth as $28 billion making him the richest of Sweden's 12 billionaires and the 17th richest person in the world; he has since dropped to number 50. Persson was the chairman of fashion company H&M until May 2020, when he was succeeded by his son. He remains the company's largest shareholder, owning a 36% stake. The company was founded by his father Erling Persson in 1947.

#1189

Eva Steiness

#185323

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Eva Steiness née Uhl is a Danish physician, former university professor and businessperson who has been active in Scandinavia's pharmaceutical industry since the late 1990s. She is currently CEO of Serodus ASA, a biomedical company based in Oslo which develops drugs for the treatment of diabetes. In 1982, Steiness became the first women to be appointed dean of Copenhagen University's faculty of medicine and in 1985, she became the first women in Denmark to become a full professor in the medical field with her appointment at Aarhus University.

#1190

Renée Mauborgne

#186225

Overall Influence

#1191

Kenan Sahin

#177177

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Kenan Eyüp Şahin, is a Turkish-born American scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founder, President and the Chief Technology Officer of TIAX LLC in Lexington, Massachusetts. He is also the founder and CEO of CAMX Power which formerly was a division of TIAX LLC and in May 2014, became a separate company.

#1192

Jim Lee

#186275

Overall Influence

#1193

Marianna Ivashina

Marianna Ivashina

#168229

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Marianna Ivashina is a Professor in Antenna Systems at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Biography Marianna Ivashina received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Sevastopol National Technical University , Ukraine, in 2001. From 2001 to 2010 she was with The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy , where she carried out research on innovative phased array feed technologies for future radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array , and APERTIF PAF system for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope.

#1194

Mike Moyer

#183551

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Michael Dirck Moyer is an American entrepreneur, author, adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University, and adjunct associate professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has written eight books in support of achieving success in advanced education and business, including How to Make Colleges Want You and Slicing Pie , the latter of which outlined his strategy for dividing equity in startup companies.

#1195

Tan Lin

#119656

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Tan Anthony Lin is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and professor. He defines his work as "ambient" literature, which draws on and samples source material from the Internet and popular culture to address issues involving plagiarism, copyright, and technology.

#1196

Don Thompson

#175756

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Donald Thompson is an American engineer and business executive who was the president and chief executive of McDonald's Corporation from 2012 until 2015. He announced on January 28, 2015, that he would retire from the company and leave his position on March 1, 2015, and was succeeded by Steve Easterbrook, the senior executive vice president and chief brand officer. He is currently the CEO of Cleveland Avenue, an investment group and accelerator that focuses on building new food, beverage, and restaurant concepts, which he founded in 2015. Cleveland Avenue has invested in Beyond Meat and Taste ...

#1197

Mariassunta Giannetti

#178657

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Mariassunta Giannetti is an economist and a professor of finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. She won the Assar Lindbeck Medal in 2013. She is an associate editor of The Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics since 2021, and she was an associate editor of The Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance. She is a research fellow at CEPR and the European Academic Director of the Financial Management Association .

#1198

Dominique Guinard

Dominique Guinard

#180813

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Dominique "Dom" Guinard is the CTO of EVRYTHNG. He is a technologist, entrepreneur and developer with a career dedicated to building the Internet of Things both in the cloud and on embedded Things. He is particularly known for his early contributions to the Web of Things along with other researchers such as Vlad Trifa, Erik Wilde and Friedemann Mattern. Guinard is a published researcher, a book author and a recognized expert in Internet of Things technologies

#1199

Martin De Prycker

#181065

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Martin De Prycker is a Belgian engineer and businessman. He was until December 2008 the CEO of Barco, a Belgian display hardware manufacturer. He currently serves as CEO of Caliopa, a spin-off of Ghent University and IMEC and is managing partner at Qbic fund.

#1200

Michael Jackson

#152477

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Michael Jackson is a Canadian actor, grip and gaffer. He is known for his acting role as "Trevor" in the comedy TV series Trailer Park Boys and the later film Trailer Park Boys: The Movie . Jackson was born in Ottawa, Ontario.

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