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The Wharton School & Nightly Business Report Name Intel's Andy Grove #1 of 'The 25 Most Influential Business Persons of the Past 25 Years'


January 22, 2004 23:30

The Wharton School & Nightly Business Report Name Intel's Andy Grove #1 of 'The 25 Most Influential Business Persons of the Past 25 Years'


PHILADELPHIA, Jan 22, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- List Celebrates 25th Anniversary Milestone for PBS Show

An expert panel from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania helped public TV's Nightly Business Report (NBR) unveil "The 25 Most Influential Business Persons of the Past 25 Years" with Andy Grove, chairman of the board of Intel Corporation, named the #1 most influential person live on the Jan. 22 broadcast.

Nightly Business Report is celebrating a quarter century since it first aired on public television. Today, it is TV's longest-running and most-watched daily business news program. For several months Wharton faculty, who participated in the selection of the top 25, have appeared on Nightly Business Report to discuss some of the business issues that these business leaders have faced.

In alphabetical order, the 25 Most Influential Business Persons of the Past 25 Years are:

Mary Kay Ash - Mary Kay Cosmetics
Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com
John Bogle - The Vanguard Group
Richard Branson - Virgin Group
Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway
James Burke - Johnson and Johnson
Michael Dell - Dell Computers
Peter Drucker - Educator and author
Bill Gates - Microsoft
William George - Medtronics
Louis Gerstner - IBM
Alan Greenspan - Chairman, Federal Reserve
Andy Grove - Intel
Lee Iacocca - Chrysler
Steve Jobs - Apple Computers
Herb Kelleher - Southwest Airlines
Peter Lynch - Fidelity Magellan Fund
Charles Schwab - Charles Schwab
Frederick Smith - Federal Express
George Soros - Philanthropist
Ted Turner - CNN
Sam Walton - Wal-Mart
Jack Welch - General Electric
Oprah Winfrey - Oprah
Mohammed Yunus - Grameen Bank

"It is impossible to conceive of today's global, networked economy without Intel, or to imagine Intel without Andy Grove," said Mukul Pandya, editor and managing director of Knowledge@Wharton. "He is a visionary, unconventional leader who excels at turning setbacks into strengths. Grove's life and career consistently reveal his imagination, resolution and integrity. That is what makes him the most influential leader of our times."

Hundreds of NBR viewers submitted their nominations for the most influential business person and the nominees were judged according to criteria established by the Wharton panel which included: Raffi Amit, Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship; Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management; Barbara Kahn, Dorothy Silberberg Professor of Marketing; Robert Mittelstaedt, Vice Dean and Director of Executive Education; Mukul Pandya, Editor and Managing Director of Knowledge@Wharton; and Michael Useem, William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management.

For more information about the list and program, please visit the Nightly Business Report Web site at http://www.nightlybusiness.org.

About Nightly Business Report

NBR is anchored by Paul Kangas in Miami, who has been with the program since its inception, and Susie Gharib in New York, a dynamic and experienced reporter who's been on the print and television sides of financial news.

NBR, produced by NBR Enterprises/WPBT2/Miami and distributed by American Public Television, is underwritten nationally by A.G. Edwards, Deloitte & Touche, LLP, and Franklin Templeton Investments.

About the Wharton School and Knowledge@Wharton

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 77,000 worldwide.

Knowledge@Wharton is a biweekly online resource that captures knowledge generated at Wharton through such channels as research papers, conferences, books, and interviews with faculty on current business topics, and distributes that knowledge online to a global business audience. The site is free and can be accessed at Knowledge@Wharton.

Launched in May 1999, Knowledge@Wharton has over 310,000 subscribers in 189 countries. Subscriptions are increasing at a rate of 6,000 to 8,000 a month. Among business users, 15 percent are top managers at their companies, 35 percent are in senior management and 45 percent are in middle management. Sponsors of Knowledge@Wharton include Booz Allen Hamilton, GE Capital, Intel, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Bank of America, and Aon Consulting.

The Web site contains more than 1,500 articles and research papers in its database and more are added every week. Knowledge@Wharton has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Information Week and several other publications.

SOURCE: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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