Business
- Joani Blank (1959), founder of Good Vibrations.
- Marc Canter (1980), co-founder of MacroMind (later Macromedia).
- Jerry Greenfield (1973), co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
- John Gutfreund (1951), executive, former CEO of Salomon Brothers Inc., Business Week named him "King of Wall Street" in the 1980s.
- Charles Martin Hall (1885), co-discoverer of the electrolytic process of producing aluminium, founder of Alcoa, Inc. (and contributor to the American spelling of "aluminum").
- Ralf Hotchkiss (1969), co-founder and current (2006) Whirlwind Chief Engineer of Whirlwind Wheelchair International, 1989 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
- Dave Kaemmer (1985), founder of the Papyrus Design Group and iRacing.com
- Jane Pratt (1984), creator of Sassy and Jane magazines.
- Nova Spivack (1991), technology entrepreneur
- Nikhil Srinivasan (1990), chief investment officer
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“...we shall never be the people we should and might be until we have learned that it is the first and most important business of a nation to protect its women, not by any puling sentimentality of queenship, chivalry or angelhood, but by making it possible for them to earn an honest living.”
—Katharine Pearson Woods (1853–1923)
“It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Long ago I added to the true old adage of “What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business,” another clause which, I think, more than any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody’s business is my business.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)