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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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s;
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,—chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is the business of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)