Business
- Gerhard Andlinger 1952 – founder of Andlinger & Company, Inc.
- James T. Aubrey, Jr. A.B. 1941 – president of CBS and MGM
- Jeff Bezos B.S.E. 1986 – founder of Amazon.com
- Frank Biondi A.B. 1963 – former chairman of Viacom
- John C. Bogle A.B. 1951 – former founder and CEO of The Vanguard Group, which pioneered the index fund.
- Youngsuk Chi – A.B. 1983 – CEO of Elsevier and former University Trustee
- Charles W. Coker – A.B. 1955 – former CEO and Chairman of Sonoco Products
- Ralph Denunzio A.B. 1953 – former CEO of Kidder, Peabody & Co.
- Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (class of 1920) – former CEO of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
- Malcolm Forbes A.B. 1941 – businessman and publisher
- Steve Forbes A.B. 1970 – son of Malcolm Forbes, businessman and publisher of Forbes magazine
- William Clay Ford, Jr. 1979 – Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors Ford Motor Company
- Franklin Potts Glass, Jr. 1877 – newspaper publisher
- Phil Goldman B.S.E. 1986 – founder of WebTV
- Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. A.B. 1954 – Former President and CEO, Hallmark Cards; Former President and CEO, Kansas City Southern Industries; Member or Former Member of the Board, Kansas City Southern Industries, Ford Motor Company, Dow Jones & Co., Aquila, Inc., Sprint, Estee Lauder; Former Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
- Carl Icahn A.B. 1957 – Corporate raider
- Andrea Jung A.B. 1979 – CEO of Avon Products
- John Katzman A.B. (Architecture) 1981 – founder of The Princeton Review
- Joe Kennedy B.S.E. 1981 – CEO and President of Pandora Internet Radio
- George Kern 1947 – prominent lawyer, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell
- F. Thomson Leighton B.S.E. 1978 – cofounder of Akamai Technologies
- Peter B. Lewis A.B. 1955 – Chairman of Progressive
- Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Jr. (1914–2003), head of Philadelphia publisher J.B. Lippincott & Co.
- Donold Lourie A.B. 1922 – President and CEO of Quaker Oats Company
- Aaron Marcus B.A. 1965 – founded Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. in 1982
- Ginna Marston B.A. 1980 – Public service advertising
- James S. McDonnell M.S. 1921 – founded McDonnell Aircraft Corporation in 1939
- Louis Rukeyser A.B. 1954 – former host of Wall $treet Week and business commentator
- Eric E. Schmidt B.S.E. 1976 – CEO of Google
- Jeffery A. Smisek A.B. (Economics) 1976 – CEO of United Continental Holdings
- Daniel J. Warmenhoven B.S.E. 1972 – CEO of NetApp, Inc. (NTAP)
- Ralph Warner A.B. 1963 – pioneer in the legal self-help book industry, co-founder of Nolo Press
- John Weinberg A.B. 1948 – head of Goldman Sachs from 1976 to 1990
- Meg Whitman A.B. 1977 – CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard
- Sir Gordon Wu B.S.E. (Civil Engineering) 1958 – founder and chairman of Hopewell Holdings Ltd
- William Fung B.S.E. 1970 – managing director of Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.
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