Raj Subramaniam
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Anders Opedal
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Santiago Sosa
He used to get to the São Paulo office for less than seven reais. He had founded the company from a university project that had not worked out and still watched every dollar as if it were the last one. Today, around $3 billio...
Vas Narasimhan
Newly appointed CEO of one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, he spent twelve hours stranded at Dublin Airport waiting for a Ryanair flight. He still tells the story of that afternoon.
Kenta Kon
He was corrected right there on the factory floor, and he still tells the story. He comes from finance and now spends much of his week visiting factories because he admits he is still learning how to look at them.
Larry Culp
He still keeps the payroll ledger from his grandfather's workshop. He took over General Electric when it was close to the edge and ended up splitting it into three companies. His method did not come from a boardroom....
Henrique Braun
In the late 1990s, a Brazilian agronomy student used to walk along Peachtree Street in Atlanta and often passed a sign showing how many people lived in the metropolitan area. There were fewer than three million. Today there a...
Sanjay Mehrotra
Sanjay Mehrotra tried three times to get a visa to study in the United States, and all three times he was turned down. He was 18, had completed two years of university in I...
Elliott Hill
Elliott Hill has a habit that shows up both at Nike and in his personal life: when something becomes too big, he tries to reduce it to a few things. Someone once told him t...
Arvind Krishna
In July 1993, Lou Gerstner had been running IBM for three months and was already being asked where he planned to take the company. The situation was bad: IBM had lost more than US$8 billion in a single year, and its mainframe...