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Harry R. Truman

Harry R. Truman was an American entrepreneur who owned the Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake, Washington, and died in the volcano's 1980 eruption.

Harry Snyder

Harry Snyder (1913–1976) was an American restaurateur who, with his wife Esther, founded In-N-Out Burger in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948, pioneering the drive-thru two-way speaker ordering system.

Harry Stylli

Harry Stylli is a San Diego-based diagnostics entrepreneur, best known as president and CEO of Sequenom from 2005 until his 2009 termination, and later co-founder of Progenity.

Harry Weller

Harry Weller was an American venture capitalist, a general partner at New Enterprise Associates who led its East Coast software practice and invested early in Groupon.

Harry Whitton

Harry Whitton is an ETF trading executive who served as Head of ETF Sales and Trading at Old Mission, a Chicago proprietary trading firm, which he joined around 2020.

Harry Winokur

Harry Winokur was an American businessman and certified public accountant who founded the Mister Donut doughnut chain in Boston in 1955 with his brother-in-law, Dunkin' Donuts founder William Rosenberg.

Harry Winston

Harry Weinstein, born in New York in 1896, was an American jeweler known as the King of Diamonds who donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian in 1958.

Harsh Goenka (हर्ष वर्धन गोयनका)

Harsh Goenka, also known as Harsh Vardhan Goenka, is an Indian industrialist born in 1957 who chairs RPG Enterprises, the Mumbai-based group founded by his father R.P. Goenka.

Harsh Jain

Harsh Jain is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Dream Sports, the Mumbai company behind the Dream11 fantasy sports platform, and serves as its chief executive officer.

Harsha Kumar

Harsha Kumar is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who invests in Indian and Southeast Asian startups, known for early backing of Pocket FM and a product career at Ola and Zynga.

Harshad Mehta (હર્ષદ શાંતિલાલ મહેતા)

Harshad Mehta (હર્ષદ શાંતિલાલ મહેતા), born Harshad Shantilal Mehta, was an Indian stockbroker and the central figure of the 1992 Indian securities scam, dying in custody in 2001.

Harshil Mathur

Harshil Mathur (हर्षिल माथुर) is an Indian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Razorpay, India's largest payment gateway, in 2014 and leads it as chief executive officer.

Harshita Arora

Harshita Arora is an Indian-born venture capitalist who became a General Partner at Y Combinator in 2026, its youngest ever, after co-founding the trucking-fintech company AtoB.

Harshjit Sethi

Harshjit Sethi, also known as Harshjit Singh Sethi, is an Indian venture investor who spent a decade at Sequoia Capital India and Peak XV Partners before co-founding Ambition Capital.

Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act

The Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 is a US federal law requiring parties to large mergers to notify the FTC and DOJ and observe a waiting period before closing.

Hartley Richardson

Hartley Richardson is a Canadian business executive who has served as CEO of James Richardson & Sons since 1993, growing the family firm into Canada's largest grain handler.

Hartono Kweefanus

Hartono Kweefanus is an Indonesian-born businessman who serves as Chairperson Emeritus of Monde Nissin, the Philippine food maker behind Lucky Me! noodles and SkyFlakes crackers, and holds its largest stake.

Hartz concept

The Hartz concept refers to four German labor-market reform laws adopted from 2003 to 2005 under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, whose fourth law created the means-tested benefit Hartz IV.

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is a bimonthly management magazine and digital media platform published by Harvard Business Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School, founded in 1922.

Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School, also known as HBS, is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, known for pioneering the case method of teaching management in 1921.

Harvest Partners Structured Capital

Harvest Partners Structured Capital is the non-control structured capital strategy of New York private equity firm Harvest Partners, launched in 2014 and headquartered at 280 Park Avenue.

Harvey Hubbell II

Harvey Hubbell II (1857–1927) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who founded Hubbell Incorporated in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1888 and patented the pull-chain lamp socket still in use today.

Harvey Norman

Harvey Norman is an Australian retailer of computers, electrical goods, appliances, bedding, and furniture, running a franchised network of large-format stores under the Harvey Norman, Domayne, and Joyce Mayne brands.

Haryanto Tjiptodihardjo

Haryanto Tjiptodihardjo is an Indonesian businessman who serves as President Director of Impack Pratama, a building-materials maker his father founded in 1981 and Indonesia's largest maker of polymer-based roofs.

has.to.be

has.to.be was an Austrian electric-vehicle charging software company based in Salzburg, founded in 2013 and acquired by the American company ChargePoint in 2021 for about €250 million.

Hasan Abbas Sharbatly

Hasan Abbas Sharbatly (حسن عباس شربتلي) was a Saudi merchant from Jeddah who founded the AlNahla Group, is credited with founding Riyad Bank, and died in 1999.

Hasbro

Hasbro, also known as Hassenfeld Brothers, is an American toy and games company whose brands include Magic: The Gathering, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, and My Little Pony.

Haseeb Qureshi

Haseeb Qureshi is a managing partner at Dragonfly Ventures, a multibillion-dollar crypto venture firm, after careers as a top-ranked professional poker player and software engineer at Airbnb and Earn.com.

HashiCorp

HashiCorp is a developer-tools company co-founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, known for Terraform, Vault, and Consul, and acquired by IBM in 2025.

Hasib Sabbagh

Hasib Sabbagh (حسيب صباغ) was a Palestinian entrepreneur who co-founded Consolidated Contractors Company, one of the Middle East's largest construction groups, and became a leading Palestinian philanthropist.