Chairul Tanjung was born on June 16, 1962 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The path he took to eventually become one of the most successful businessmen in Indonesia could be viewed by some as a bit strange. He went to school at the state-run University of Indonesia and spent all of six years training to become a [...]
In countries like the U.S. you have many businessmen who have entered the field of politics. Yet it is nothing like what Najib Mikati has been experiencing throughout his life. You may like him or hate him but Najib Mikati chose to become a political figure in a country where high public officials can lead [...]
Some say their business is a labor of love. Other say because they love what they’re doing they are successful. Well in the case of couples Tom and Judy they simply can’t escape love-it’s their surname. The Love’s story began in 1964 when Tom and Judy Love started Musket Corporation with $5,000. They leased an [...]
Adi Godrej comes with impeccable academic credentials. Born on April 3, 1942, he earned his undergraduate degree from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a member of Tau Beta Pi. This kind of credentials is a ticket to a fast-track career in the corporate [...]
We often hear stories of daring businessmen who risk a lot of money in some grand vision that they have. Most of them happened in Western civilizations. What we don’t read about are the equally intrepid businessmen in the Middle East who also have their own grand visions of how things ought to be. One [...]
With inspiration drawn from a book Andrew Tan dreamed big, worked hard and is now reaping the fruits of his labor. Andrew Tan was born in the Fujian province in China. His childhood years were spent in an apartment in Hong Kong share with other families. He then moved to Manila, Philippines and studied accounting [...]
Some vocational paths are easily measured: by certain milestones, or the completion of specific seminars and educational benchmarks, or customer population growth, or profit accrued. Others may require different standards of evaluation, as their craft requires a greater degree of nuance and specialized understanding. The antiques arena is one such field, built upon a careful [...]
Sam Zell followed the concept of buying low and selling high to become one of the most successful real estate businessmen in the U.S. The concept is pretty straight forward enough. Executing it is another issue all together and Zell is great at executing. Zell was born in 1941 in Chicago. His Jewish immigrant parents [...]
Andre Esteves came from a working class family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After earning a bachelor’s degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 1989 he worked for Banco Pactual as a systems analyst. Banco Pactual was established in 1983 as a broker dealer and rapidly branched into asset management and investment [...]
Working quietly under his father’s shadow Jay Y. Lee is taking the path that will one day lead him to head one of the world’s largest companies. The name Jay Y. Lee does not ring a bell in the minds of the general public. He is well-known within the global technology industry. Jay even attended [...]