| John D. Rockefeller | Oil | |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Shipping | |
| John Jacob Astor | Fur/Land | |
| Stephen Girard | Banking | |
| Andrew Carnegie | Steel | |
| Alexander Turney Stewart | Retailing | |
| Frederick Weyerhaeuser | Lumber | |
| Jay Gould | Finance | |
| Stephen Van Rensselaer | Land (inherit) | |
| Marshall Field | Retailing/Land | |
| Henry Ford | Automobiles | |
| Andrew W. Mellon | Banking | |
| Richard B. Mellon | Banking | |
| Sam Moore Walton | Retailing | |
| James G. Fair | Mining | |
| William Weightman | Chemicals | |
| Moses Taylor | Banking | |
| Russell Sage | Finance | |
| John I. Blair | Railroads | |
| Cyrus H. K. Curtis | Publishing | |
| Edward Henry Harriman | Railroads | |
| Henry Huddleston Rogers | Oil | |
| John Pierpont Morgan | Finance | |
| Col. Oliver H. Payne | Oil/Finance | |
| Henry C. Frick | Steel | |
| Collis Potter Huntington | Railroads | |
| Peter A. Widener | City Transit | |
| James Cair Flood | Mining | |
| Nicholas Longworth | Land | |
| Philip Danforth Armour | Meatpacking | |
| Bill Gates | Software | |
| Mark Hopkins | Railroads | |
| Edward Clark | Sewing machines | |
| Leland Stanford | Railroads | |
| William Rockefeller | Oil | |
| Hetty Green | Finance | |
| James Jerome Hill | Railroads | |
| Elias Hasket Derby | Merchant/Shipping | |
| Warren Buffett | Finance | |
| Claus Spreckels | Sugar | |
| George Peabody | Finance | |
| Charles Crocker | Railroads | |
| William Andrews Clark | Mining | |
| George Eastman | Photography | |
| Charles L. Tiffany | Jewelry | |
| Thomas Fortune Ryan | City Transit | |
| Edward Stephen Harkness | Oil (inheritance) | |
| Henry M. Flagler | Oil/Resorts | |
| James Buchanan Duke | Tobacco | |
| Israel Thorndike | Merchant/Shipping | |
| William S. O'Brien | Mining | |
| Issac Merritt Singer | Sewing machines | |
| George Hearst | Mining | |
| John Hancock | Merchant/Shipping | Congregationalist |
| John W. Garrett | Railroads | |
| John W. Mackay | Mining | |
| Julius Rosenwald | Catalog retailing | |
| George F. Baker | Banking | |
| George Washington | Land | |
| Anthony N. Brady | Transit/Utilities | |
| Adolphus Busch | Beer | |
| John T. Dorrance | Canned goods | |
| George M. Pullman | Railroad cars | |
| Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. | Medical supplies | |
| John Francis Dodge | Automobiles | |
| Horace Elgin Dodge | Automobiles | |
| J. Paul Getty | Oil | |
| William H. Aspinwall | Shipping | |
| Johns Hopkins | Merchant/Railroads | |
| John Werner Kluge | Communications | |
| Samuel Colt | Guns | |
| James Stillman | Banking | |
| William Collins Whitney | Transit | |
| William Thaw | Canals/Railroads | |
| Paul Allen | Software | |
| Cyrus H. McCormick | Farm equipment | |
| Arthur Vining Davis | Aluminum | |
| Thomas Handasyd Perkins | Merchant/Shipping | |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Publishing | |
| Daniel Willis James | Merchant | |
| Howard Hughes | Oil/Aviation | |
| Frank W. Woolworth | Retailing | |
| John McDonogh | Land | |
| Samuel Slater | Textiles | |
| August Belmont | Finance | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Land/Printing | |
| Sumner Murray | Redstone Communications | |
| Capt. Robert | Dollar Shipping | |
| Richard Warren | Sears Catalog retailing | |
| H. L. Hunt | Oil | |
| Jay Van | Direct merchandising | |
| Richard Marvin DeVos | Direct merchandising | |
| Henry Phipps | Steel | |
| Lawrence J. Ellison | Software | |
| Ronald Owen Perelman | Finance | |
| Peter Chardon Brooks | Merchant/Shipping | |
| Charles W. Post | Cereals | |
| Samuel I. Newhouse | Publishing | |
| William Wrigley, Jr. | Chewing gum | |
| David Packard | Computers |
Text from the back cover:
Ultimately, business is about people--investors, visionaries, courageous leaders who forge new paths. Movers and Shakers brings to life 100 men and women who built companies and industries, created new ways of doing business, or advanced the art and science of management. From the robber barons of the early, brawny years of the twentieth century to the techno-wizards at the beginning of the twenty-first, Movers and Shakers introduces the gurus and giants who left indelible marks on the business landscape.Expanding on the rich database of information assembled for the landmark reference Business: The Ultimate Resource, and including many completely original entries, this book reveals the defining moments that changed business history. Colorful, incisive, and entertaining, Movers and Shakers illuminates the larger-than-life figures who have, indeed, created business as we know it today.
| R. Meredith Belbin | 1926- | |
| Warren Bennis | 1925- | |
| Kenneth Blanchard | 1939- | |
| Dale Carnegie | 1888-1955 | |
| Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. | 1918- | Episcopalian |
| Stephen R. Covey | 1932- | Latter-day Saint |
| W. Edwards Deming | 1900-1993 | |
| Peter Drucker | 1909- | |
| Mary Parker Follett | 1868-1933 | |
| Ghoshal and Bartlett | ||
| Frank and Lillian Gilbreth | 1868-1924 (Frank); 1878-1972 (Lillian) | |
| Charles Handy | 1932- | |
| Frederick Herzberg | 1923-2000 | |
| Joseph M. Juran | 1904- | |
| Rosabeth Moss Kantor | 1943- | |
| Kaplan and Norton | ||
| Thodore Levitt | 1925- | |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | 1469-1527 | Catholic |
| Ikujiro Nonaka | 1935- | |
| Kenichi Ohmae | 1943- | |
| Tom Peters | 1942- | |
| Michael Porter | 1947- | |
| Edgar Schein | 1928- | |
| Adam Smith | 1723-1790 | Liberal Protestant |
| Sun Tzu | c. 400 | |
| Frederick Winslow Taylor | 1856-1915 | |
| Max Weber | 1864-1920 |
| Marc Andreessen | 1971 | |
| Phileas Taylor Barnum | 1810-1891 | Universalist |
| Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken) | 1879-1964 | |
| Jeffrey Bezos | 1964- | |
| William Boeing | 1881-1956 | |
| Richard Branson | 1950- | atheist |
| Warren Buffett | 1930- | atheist |
| Leo Burnett | 1891-1971 | |
| Andrew Carnegie | 1835-1919 | Presbyterian |
| Willis Haviland Carrier | 1876-1950 | |
| Walter Percy Chrysler | 1875-1940 | |
| Jim Clark | 1944- | |
| Michael Dell | 1965- | Jewish |
| Walter Elias Disney (Walt Disney) | 1901-1966 | Congregationalist |
| James Buchanan Duke | 1856-1925 | |
| George Eastman | 1854-1932 | |
| Thomas Alva Edison | 1847-1931 | Congregationalist; agnostic |
| Michael Eisner | 1942- | Jewish |
| Larry Ellison | 1944- | Jewish |
| Enzo Ferrari | 1898-1988 | Catholic |
| Henry Ford | 1863-1947 | Protestant |
| Bill Gates | 1955- | |
| Harold Geneen | 1910-1997 | |
| Louis Frederick Gerstner | 1942- | |
| Jean Paul Getty | 1892-1976 | |
| King Camp Gillette | 1855-1932 | |
| Roberto Goizueta | 1931-1997 | |
| Andrew S. Grove | 1936- | Jewish |
| William Randolph Hearst | 1863-1951 | Catholic |
| Milton Snavely Hershey | 1857-1945 | Jewish |
| Conrad Nicholson Hilton | 1887-1979 | Catholic |
| Soichiro Honda | 1906-1992 | |
| Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. | 1905-1975 | |
| Lee Iacocca | 1924- | Catholic |
| Steve Jobs | 1955-2003 | Lutheran; Buddhist |
| Phil Knight | 1938- | |
| Ray Kroc | 1902-1984 | |
| Edwin Land | 1909-1991 | |
| Estee Lauder | 1908- | Jewish |
| Ralph Lauren | 1939 | Jewish |
| Henry Robinson Luce | 1898-1967 | |
| Konosuke Matsushita | 1894-1989 | |
| Louis B. Mayer | 1885-1957 | Jewish |
| Cyrus Hall McCormick | 1809-1884 | |
| Scott McNealy | 1954- | |
| Charles Merrill | 1855-1956 | |
| J. P. Morgan | 1837-1913 | Episcopalian |
| Akio Morita | 1921-1999 | |
| Rupert Murdoch | 1931- | Jewish and/or Catholic |
| David Ogilby | 1911-1999 | |
| Jorma Jaakko Ollila | 1950- | |
| Pierre Omidyar | 1967- | |
| David Packard | 1912-1996 | |
| John H. Patterson | 1844-1922 | |
| Arthur Rock | 1926 | Jewish |
| John D. Rockefeller | 1839-1937 | Baptist |
| Anita Roddick | 1942- | |
| Julius Rosenwald | 1862-1932 | Jewish |
| David Sarnoff | 1891-1970 | Jewish |
| Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. | 1875-1955 | |
| Martha Stewart | 1941- | Catholic |
| Levi Strauss | 1829-1902 | Jewish |
| Eiji Toyoda | 1913- | |
| Robert Edward Turner III (Ted Turner) | 1938- | raised Catholic/Episcopal; now agnostic or atheist |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | 1794-1877 | |
| Samuel Walton | 1918-1992 | Presbyterian |
| Paul Warburg | 1868-1932 | Jewish |
| Thomas J. Watson, Sr. | 1874-1956 | |
| Jack Welch | 1935- | |
| Frederick Weyerhaeuser | 1834-1914 | |
| Oprah Winfrey | 1954- | Protestant |
| Robert Winship Woodruff | 1889-1985 | |
| Frank Winfield Woolworth | 1852-1919 |
