Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University,a private research university in New York City. Established in 1916,Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and is one of the oldest business schools in the world.
Norman Ralph "Norm" Augustine is a U.S. aerospace businessman who served as United States Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977. Augustine served as chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He was chairman of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
Andrea Jung is a Canadian-American executive,non-profit leader,and prominent women's-issues supporter based in New York City. In April 2014,she became president and CEO of Grameen America,a nonprofit microfinance organization founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner,Muhammad Yunus. From 1999 until 2012,she served as the first female CEO and chairman of Avon Products,Inc.,a multi-level marketing company. Jung was also the first woman to serve as Chairman of the Cosmetic,Toiletry &Fragrance Association,and Chairman of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations.
International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is an independent academic institute with campuses in Lausanne,Switzerland and Singapore. IMD is well known for its MBA program,which is taught in English and consistently ranked among the best in the world. In 2024,it named David Bach as its new president.
John Carl Malone is an American billionaire businessman,landowner,and philanthropist. He was chief executive officer (CEO) of Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI),a cable and media giant,for twenty-four years from 1973 to 1996. Malone is now chairman and largest voting shareholder of Liberty Media,Liberty Global,and Qurate Retail Group,and also owned 7% of Lionsgate and Starz Inc. He was interim CEO of Liberty Media,until succeeded by former Microsoft and Oracle CFO Greg Maffei.
Bernadine Patricia Healy was an American cardiologist and the first female director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Indra Nooyi is an Indian-born American business executive who was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2018.
Safra Ada Catz is an Israeli-American billionaire banker and technology executive. She is the CEO of Oracle Corporation. She has been an executive at Oracle since April 1999,and a board member since 2001. In April 2011,she was named co-president and chief financial officer (CFO),reporting to founder Larry Ellison. In September 2014,Oracle announced that Ellison would step down as CEO and that Mark Hurd and Catz had been named as joint CEOs. In September 2019,Catz became the sole CEO after Hurd resigned due to health issues.
Brenda Czajka Barnes was an American businesswoman who served as president,chairman and chief executive of Sara Lee,and was the first female CEO at PepsiCo.
Since 2004,Forbes,an American business magazine,has published an annual list of its ranking of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Edited by prominent Forbes journalists,including Moira Forbes,the list is compiled using various criteria such as visibility and economic impact. In 2023,the gauge was "money,media,impact and spheres of influence". The top 10 per year are listed below.
Dame Angela Jean Ahrendts,is an American-British businesswoman who was previously the senior vice president of retail at Apple Inc. She was the CEO of Burberry from 2006 to 2014. She left Burberry to join Apple in 2014. She was ranked 25th in Forbes' 2015 list of the most powerful women in the world,9th most powerful woman in the U.K. in the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 100 Power List,and 29th in Fortune's 2014 list of the world's most powerful women in business. She was also a member of the UK's Prime Minister's business advisory council until it was disbanded in 2016.
Gail Koziara Boudreaux is an American businesswoman. She has served as an executive for a number of companies such as Aetna,BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois (2002),and UnitedHealth Group (2008).
Ellen J. Kullman is a United States business executive. Since November 2019,she has been the chief executive officer of Carbon (company). She was formerly Chair and Chief Executive Officer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont") in Wilmington and is a former director of General Motors. Forbes ranked her 31st of the 100 Most Powerful Women in 2014. Kullman retired from DuPont on October 16,2015.
The President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,originally the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB),was an ad hoc panel of non-governmental experts from business,labor,academia and elsewhere that President of the United States Barack Obama created on February 6,2009. The board reported to Obama and his economic team on possible ways to improve the nation's economy. Obama announced this new board on November 26,2008,and also announced that it would be chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker with campaign economic adviser Austan Goolsbee as staff director and chief economist.
Helene D. Gayle is an American physician,and academic and non-profit administrator. She has been president of Spelman College since 2023. She formerly was CEO of the Chicago Community Trust,one of the nation's leading community foundations. Earlier in her career she was the director of international humanitarian organization CARE,and spent much of her career in the field of public health research in epidemiology at the CDC.
Virginia "Ginni" Rometty is an American business executive who was executive chairman of IBM after stepping down as CEO on April 1,2020. She was previously chairman,president and CEO of IBM,becoming the first woman to head the company. She retired from IBM on December 31,2020,after a near-40 year career there. Before becoming president and CEO in January 2012,she first joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and subsequently headed global sales,marketing,and strategy.
Jeff Bell is an American executive. He is best known as the past CEO of PPLSI,for creating the Jeep Rubicon and 4-door Wrangler,launching the Chrysler 300,Halo 3,Gears of War,growing Xbox Live with Netflix and Rock Band,and exiting multiple start-ups. He is an Operating Partner at MidOcean Private Equity,and a venture partner of NCT Ventures LLC.
Anne Finucane is an American banker who was vice chair of Bank of America and chair of Bank of America Europe until retiring from the bank in 2021,after which she became a senior advisor to TPG Rise Climate and chair of Rubicon Carbon. While at Bank of America,she led its socially responsible investing,global public policy,and environmental,social and corporate governance committee.
