Laureates
1975–present
From 1975 to 2009, the Business Hall of Fame inducted 247 laureates. Some were founders of successful companies; others were CEOs, publishers, or firsts in their fields. All served as role models for JA students.
In the years since the original Business Hall of Fame launched, both JA and the landscape of business have evolved. So, too, has the Global Business Hall of Fame. Our new laureates are more reflective of our global reach, of the makeup of JA students, and of the business world today, including a commitment to select women as half of our laureates, as well as ensuring more representation from countries around the world and from diverse industries. The Global Business Hall of Fame also focuses on business as a global force for good, prioritizing nominees who are working toward the global good.
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William M. Allen, The Boeing Co.
Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., Bechtel Group, Inc.
William Blackie, Caterpillar Tractor Co.
Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Steel Co.
Harry B. Cunningham, Kmart Corp.
Arthur V. Davis, ALCOA
Walter E. Disney, The Walt Disney Co.
Georges F. Doriot, American R&D Corp.
Donald W. Douglas, McDonnell Douglas
George Eastman, Eastman Kodak
Thomas A. Edison, Inventor
Henry Ford, Ford Motor Co.
Benjamin Franklin, Inventor & Statesman
Roswell Garst, Garst Seed Co.
A.P. Giannini, BankAmerica
Florence N. Graham, Elizabeth Arden Inc.
Walter A. Haas, Levi Strauss & Co.
Joyce C. Hall, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Henry J. Heinz, H.J. Heinz Co.
Conrad N. Hilton, Hilton Hotels Corp.
James J. Hill, Railroads
J. Erik Jonsson, Texas Instruments
Henry J. Kaiser, Kaiser Enterprises
Albert D. Lasker, Lord & Thomas Advertising
Royal Little, Textron Corp.
Francis C. Lowell, Pioneer Industrialist
Henry R. Luce, Time Inc.
Ian K. MacGregor, AMAX
John J. McCloy, Chase Manhattan Bank
Cyrus H. McCormick, Inventor, Businessman
Charles E. Merrill, Merrill Lynch
Joseph I. Miller, Cummins Engine Co.
George S. Moore, Citibank
J. Pierpont Morgan, Financier
David M. Ogilvy, Ogilvy & Mather
John H. Patterson, NCR
James C. Penney, J.C. Penney Co., Inc.
William C. Procter, Procter & Gamble Co.
Monroe J. Rathbone, Standard Oil of NJ
J.D. Rockefeller Sr., Standard Oil Co. (NJ)
David Sarnoff, RCA/NBC
Alfred P. Sloan Jr, General Motors
Cyrus R. Smith, American Airlines
Alexander T. Stewart, A.T. Stewart & Co.
J. Edgar Thomson, Pennsylvania Railroad
Theodore N. Vail, AT&T
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Railroads
George Washington, Statesman
Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM Corp.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Weyerhaeuser Co
Eli Whitney, Pioneer Industrialist
Robert E. Wood, Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Robert W. Woodruff, The Coca-Cola Co.
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Robert O. Anderson, ARCO
Leo H. Baekeland, Union Carbide Corp.
William M. Batten, J.C. Penney Co., Inc.
Arnold O. Beckman, SmithKline Beckman
Olive A. Beech, Beech Aircraft Corp.
William E. Boeing, The Boeing Co.
Marvin Bower, McKinsey & Co.
Edward E. Carlson, United Airlines, Inc.
Willis H. Carrier, Carrier Corp.
Walter P. Chrysler, Chrysler Corp
Frederick C. Crawford, TRW, Inc.
Trammell Crow, Trammel Crow Co.
John Deere, Deere & Co.
Pierre S. duPont, DuPont
Cyrus W. Field, Transatlantic Cable
Harvey S. Firestone, Firestone Tire & Rubber
Henry M. Flagler, Florida Developer
King C. Gillette, Gillette Co.
Leonard H. Goldenson, Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
Benjamin Graham, Economist/GEICO
George S. Halas, Chicago Bears
Edward H. Harriman, Union Pacific RR
Milton S. Hershey, Hershey Foods
William R. Hewlett, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Edward C. Johnson II, Fidelity Mutual Fund Charles F. Kettering, General Motors Corp.
Reginald H. Jones, General Electric Co.
W.K. Kellogg, Kellogg Co.
Donald M. Kendall, PepsiCo, Inc.
Bernard Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal
Robert J. Kleberg Sr., King Ranch, Inc.
Ray A. Kroc, McDonald's Corp.
Alden J. Laborde, Odeco/Tidewater, Inc.
Edwin H. Land, Polaroid Corp.
William F. Laporte, American Home Products
Estée Lauder, Estée Lauder, Inc.
Forrest E. Mars, Mars, Inc.
Jack C. Massey, HCA & KFC
Malcolm P. McLean, Sea-Land Service, Inc.
Rene C. McPherson, Dana Corp.
George J. Mecherle, State Farm Insurance
Andrew Mellon, Financier
Howard J. Morgens, Procter & Gamble Co.
S. I. Newhouse, Newhouse Publishing
Robert N. Noyce, Intel/Sematech
Adolph S. Ochs, The New York Times
David Packard, Hewlett-Packard Co.
William S. Paley, CBS, Inc.
William A. Patterson, United Airlines
H. Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems
Wallace R. Persons, Emerson
Abe Plough, Schering-Plough Corp.
Dr. Simon Ramo, TRW/Bunker Ramo
Donald T. Regan, Merrill Lynch
James W. Rouse, Rouse Co.
Jacob H. Schiff, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Charles M. Schwab, Bethlehem Steel
Igor Sikorsky, Sikorsky Aircraft
Charles Spaulding, North Carolina Mutual
John E. Swearingen, Standard Oil Co.
DeWitt Wallace, Reader's Digest
Lila Acheson Wallace, Reader's Digest
George Westinghouse, Westinghouse Corp.
Joseph C. Wilson, Xerox Corp.
Kemmons Wilson, Holiday Inns, Inc.
T.A. Wilson, The Boeing Co.
Owen D. Young, General Electric
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Jay Van Andel, Amway Corp.
Walter H. Annenberg, Triangle Publications
Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay Corp.
Bernard M. Baruch, Industrialist & Economist
Charles L. Brown, AT&T
Warren E. Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
James E. Burke, Johnson & Johnson
Philip Caldwell, Ford Motor Co.
James E. Casey, United Parcel Service
Liz Claiborne, Liz Claiborne, Inc.
W. Edwards Deming, Total Quality Management
Max De Pree, Herman Miller, Inc.
Richard M. DeVos, Amway Corp.
John T. Dorrance, Campbell Soup Co.
Peter F. Drucker, Management Professor & Author
William Durant, General Motors Corp.
Marriner S. Eccles, Federal Reserve Board
Henry Ford II, Ford Motor Co.
Robert W. Galvin, Motorola, Inc.
Stanley C. Gault, Rubbermaid/Goodyear Tire
Roberto C. Goizueta, The Coca-Cola Co.
Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Co.
Berry Gordy Jr., Motown Records
Katharine Graham, The Washington Post
Andrew S. Grove, Intel Corp.
Alexander Hamilton, Bank of NY & NY Post
Paul Henson, Sprint Corp.
Alonzo Herndon, Atlanta Life Insurance Co.
Dee Ward Hock, VISA U.S.A., Inc.
Amory Houghton, Corning Glass Works
Howard Hughes, Inventor, Aviator, Movie Producer
Lee Iacocca, Chrysler Corp.
Martha Rivers Ingram, Ingram Industries, Inc.
Steven P. Jobs, Apple Computer
Samuel C. Johnson, S.C. Johnson & Sons, Inc.
John H. Johnson, Johnson Publishing Co.
Carl H. Lindner Jr., American Financial Group, Inc.
Rebecca Lukens, Lukens Steel Inc.
Peter Lynch, Fidelity Magellan Fund
J. Willard Marriott Sr., Marriott Corp.
Louis B. Mayer, MGM/UA
Frederick L. Maytag, Maytag Corp.
Robert F. McDermott, USAA
William McGowan, MCI
William L. McKnight, 3M
Robert Mondavi, Robert Mondavi Winery
Thomas S. Murphy, Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
John D. Nichols, Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Raymond Noorda, Novell Inc.
Arthur Ortenberg, Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Edmund T. Pratt Jr., Pfizer Inc
Julius Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Richard W. Sears, Sears, Roebuck & Co.
John Smale, Procter & Gamble Co./ Gen. Motors
Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corp.
Levi Strauss, Levi Strauss & Co.
John Templeton, Templeton Growth Fund
Dave Thomas, Wendy’s International, Inc.
Juan T. Trippe, Pan American World Airways
P. Roy Vagelos, Merck & Co
Madam C.J. Walker, Walker Mfg. Co.
Sam M. Walton, Wal-Mart
Thomas J. Watson Sr., IBM Corp.
John F. Welch Jr., General Electric Co.
Frank W. Woolworth, F.W. Woolworth Co.
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Philip F. Anschutz, The Anschutz Corp.
Bob Basham, Outback Steakhouse
Hans W. Becherer, Deere & Co.
Glen W. Bell, Taco Bell Corp.
Arthur M. Blank, The Home Depot, Inc.
Henry W. Bloch, H&R Block, Inc.
Harold Boeschenstein, Owens-Corning Fliberglas
Gertrude Boyle, Columbia Sportswear Co.
John H. Bryan, Sara Lee Corp.
August A. Busch Jr. , Anheuser-Busch Co.,
August A. Busch III, Anheuser-Busch Co.
Ely Reeves Callaway, Jr. , Callaway Golf Co.
Curtis L. Carlson, Carlson Companies
Steve Case, America Online, Inc.
S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A, Inc.
Charles M. Cawley, MBNA America Corp.
Raymond G. Chambers, Amelior Foundation
Kenneth I. Chenault, American Express Corp.
Maxine Clark, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.
Lodwrick M. Cook, Global Crossing Ltd.
Mike Curb, Curb Records
Edward Donley, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
William H.G. France, NASCAR
Thomas F. Frist Jr., M.D., HCA
J.B. Fuqua, The Fuqua Companies
Tim Gannon, Outback Steakhouse
Genevieve Gore, Gore & Associates, Inc.
Wilbert Gore, W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Earl G. Graves Sr., Black Enterprise Magazine
Harry Jack Gray, United Technologies Corp.
Wayne Huizenga, Huizenga Holdings
George W. Jenkins, Publix Super Markets
Robert L. Johnson, Black Entertainment Television
Herb D. Kelleher, Southwest Airlines Co.
Don Keough, The Coca-Cola Co.
Charles F. Knight, Emerson
Herbert V. Kohler Jr., Kohler Co.
Bernard Marcus, The Home Depot, Inc.
Hugh L. McColl Jr., Bank of America
John H. McConnell, Worthington Industries, Inc.
David Hall McConnell, Avon Products Inc.
Roger Milliken, Milliken & Co
Allen H. Neuharth, USA Today
Spencer Penrose, Miner owner, Hotelier
John E. Pepper Jr., The Procter & Gamble Company
Harland Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken
John H. Schnatter, Papa John’s International, Inc.
Frank Shrontz, The Boeing Co.
Muriel Siebert, Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.
Chris Sullivan, Outback Steakhouse
Robert A. Swanson, Genentech, Inc.
Richard F. Teerlink, Harley-Davidson, Inc.
Ted Turner, Turner Enterprises
Maggie Lena Walker, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank
Robert B. Wegman, Wegmans Food Markets
Joseph Wharton, Wharton School of Business
Edward E. Whitacre Jr., AT&T, Inc.
Meg Whitman, eBay Inc.
Edgar S. Woolard Jr., DuPont
William Wrigley Jr., Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
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No laureates inducted
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