Eldridge Haynes (1904-1976) is best remembered as the founder of Business International Corporation, headquarters in New York City, along with his son, Elliott Haynes as co-founder, and as a spokesman for free trade and advocate for the international business community. His early career in journalism took him to McGraw-Hill, and then eventually into starting a new magazine called Modern Industry. Recognizing that American companies were increasingly investing abroad, he and his son founded Business International in 1953. By the time of his death in 1976, it had grown into a major source of international business information, research, and advisory services. (This company was later acquired by The Economist)
The Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar is awarded annually by Academy of International Business Foundation and the Eldridge Haynes Memorial Trust.
He spent the later part of his life in the United States Virgin Islands. He founded various business groups and a nursing home on the island. [1]
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. He lived in Switzerland from 1976 to 2014.
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party.
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009 Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is now part of Penguin Random House. In 2019, the official website presents Doubleday as an imprint, not a publisher.
David Rockefeller was an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family, and family patriarch from July 2004 until his death in March 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and a grandson of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
Oskar Morgenstern was a German-American economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory as applied to economics.
Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder and chairperson of Bharti Enterprises, which has diversified interests in telecom, insurance, real estate, education, malls, hospitality, Agri and food besides other ventures. Bharti Airtel, the group's flagship company is one of the world's largest and India's second-largest telecom company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa with a customer base of over 399 million. Bharti Airtel clocked revenues of over US$14.75 billion in FY2016. He is listed as the 12th richest person in India by Forbes with a net worth of US$14.8 billion.
Masayoshi Son is a Korean-Japanese billionaire technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. A 3rd generation "Zainichi Korean", he naturalized as a Japanese citizen in 1990. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Japanese holding company SoftBank, CEO of SoftBank Mobile and chairman of UK-based Arm Holdings.
Nathan's Famous, Inc. is an American company that operates a chain of fast food restaurants specializing in hot dogs. The original Nathan's restaurant stands at the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York. The company's headquarters are at One Jericho Plaza in Jericho, New York, part of Oyster Bay, New York.
Eldridge Reeves Johnson was an American businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. Victor was the corporate predecessor of RCA Records.
Business International Corporation (BI) was a publishing and advisory firm dedicated to assisting American companies in operating abroad. It was founded in 1953. It organized conferences, and worked with major corporations. Former president Barack Obama worked there as a financial researcher after graduating from Columbia University. In 1986, Business International was acquired by the Economist Group in London, and it eventually merged with the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Chris Hughes is an American entrepreneur and author who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016.
Elwood Haynes was an American inventor, metallurgist, automotive pioneer, entrepreneur and industrialist. He invented the metal alloy stellite and independently co-discovered martensitic stainless steel along with Englishman Harry Brearley in 1912 and designed one of the earliest automobiles made in the United States. He is recognized for having created the earliest American design that was feasible for mass production and, with the Apperson brothers, he formed the first company in the United States to produce automobiles profitably. He made many advances in the automotive industry.
Martin Bouygues is the chairman and chief executive officer of the French company Bouygues ; founded by his father Francis Bouygues in 1952.
Frank Arthur Vanderlip Sr. was an American banker and journalist. He was president of the National City Bank of New York from 1909 to 1919, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1897 to 1901. Vanderlip is known for his part in founding the Federal Reserve System and for founding the first Montessori school in the United States, the Scarborough School and the group of communities in Palos Verdes, California.
Oscar Ferdinand Mayer was a German American who founded the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer that bears his name.
Sean Eldridge is a Canadian-born American political activist from New York. Eldridge is the founder and president of Stand Up America, a progressive advocacy community. He previously served as political director of Freedom to Marry, an organization advocating for the legalization of same-sex marriage. Eldridge ran for Congress in New York's 19th congressional district in 2014, but was defeated. He is the spouse of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.
Todd Boehly is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder, chairman, chief executive officer and controlling member of Eldridge Industries, a holding company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is also the interim CEO of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. In May 2022, he officially was made the owner of Premier League team Chelsea.
Justin B. Smith is an American businessman and former chief executive officer of Bloomberg Media Group. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Smith worked for Atlantic Media, The Week magazine and The Economist.
Eldridge Industries LLC is a holding company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with offices in New York, London, and Beverly Hills. Eldridge makes investments in various industries including insurance, asset management, technology, sports, media, real estate, and the consumer sector.
Edgar Allan Poe Haynes was named after the famous American writer, Edgar Allan Poe. He was known variously as E. A. P. Haynes, Allan Haynes, Allen Haynes, and Edgar Haynes. He was a Christian evangelist, philanthropist, ardent anti-liquor crusader, and international businessman, who over the course of his lifetime sold insurance, newspapers, cement, and his own expertise in business engineering. Haynes also had a widespread criminal record of embezzling, fraud, and failure to pay debts, as well as a history of frequent disappearances, location changes, and turnover in employment in the United States and abroad. He died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 56 in a jail in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.