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Henry Kravis
Henry Kravis, also known as Henry R. Kravis, is an American financier who co-founded the private equity firm KKR in 1976 and led the record $25 billion RJR Nabisco buyout in 1988.
Henry L. Higginson
Henry L. Higginson (1834–1919) was an American banker, a partner in Lee, Higginson & Co., who helped create General Electric and founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Henry Laufer
Henry S. Laufer is a mathematician and former Stony Brook professor who was chief scientist at Renaissance Technologies, formulating the trading algorithms behind the Medallion Fund's record returns.
Henry Lehman
Henry Lehman, born Hayum Lehmann, was a Bavarian-born immigrant who opened a Montgomery, Alabama, dry-goods store in 1846 that became the investment bank Lehman Brothers.
Henry Nicholas
Henry Nicholas is an American businessman and electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Broadcom in 1991 and led it as president and CEO until 2003.
Henry Paulson
Henry Paulson, known as Hank Paulson, is an American financier and 74th US Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009 who led the response to the 2008 financial crisis.
Henry Pellatt
Sir Henry Mill Pellatt (1859–1939) was a Toronto financier and militia major-general who built his fortune on electric-power monopolies, constructed the 98-room Casa Loma castle, and died nearly penniless.
Henry Reid
Henry Reid is a former registered person of Five Rings Capital LLP, the London arm of a New York proprietary trading firm, FCA-approved from 2016 to 2017.
Henry Soesanto
Henry Soesanto, born in 1952, is an Indonesian-born chemical engineer who moved to the Philippines in 1981 and leads Monde Nissin, maker of Lucky Me! noodles and SkyFlakes.
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Henry Sturgis Morgan, also known as Henry S. Morgan, was an American banker, son of J.P. Morgan Jr. and a founding partner of the investment bank Morgan Stanley in 1935.
Henry Sy
Henry Sy (施至成), 1924–2019, was a Chinese-Filipino retail magnate who arrived in Manila in 1936 with 10 centavos and built a shoe store into the Philippines' largest conglomerate.
Henry Taub
Henry Taub (1927–2011) was an American accountant who founded the payroll service that became Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1949, at age 21.
Henry W. Bloch
Henry W. Bloch (1922–2019) was an American businessman who co-founded H&R Block, the Kansas City tax-preparation company, with his brother Richard in 1955 and led it for decades.
Henry Ward Johns
Henry Ward Johns was an American businessman who founded in 1858 the New York company that, after merging with Manville in 1901, became the Johns-Manville Corporation.
Henry Wilson
Henry Threlfall Wilson (1825–1869) was a Liverpool shipbroker and shipowner who co-founded the White Star Line in 1845 and sold its flag to Thomas Henry Ismay in 1868.
Hepa Thera Bio (星曜坤泽)
Hepa Thera Bio (星曜坤泽, Xingyao Kunze) is a clinical-stage Suzhou biopharmaceutical company founded in 2021, developing siRNA and antibody drugs for liver disease, led by a hepatitis B combination.
Heraeus
Heraeus is a family-owned German precious metals and technology group headquartered in Hanau, founded from a pharmacy in 1660, with 15,181 employees in roughly 40 countries.
Heraeus family
The Heraeus family is the owner family of Heraeus, a Hanau technology group founded from a 1660 pharmacy and turned industrial by Wilhelm Carl Heraeus in 1851.
Herb Kelleher
Herb Kelleher, also known as Herbert David Kelleher, was an American lawyer who co-founded Southwest Airlines. He pioneered the low-cost airline model and served as CEO.
Herb Kohl
Herb Kohl, also known as Herbert H. Kohl, was a Milwaukee retail executive who served four terms as a Democratic US Senator from Wisconsin and owned the Milwaukee Bucks.
Herbalife
Herbalife, also known as Herbalife Nutrition, is a multi-level marketing company selling weight-management and nutritional supplements, founded by Mark Hughes in 1980 in California, where he began selling weight-loss products from his car.
Herbert Blum
Herbert Blum, born in 1950, is an Austrian family-business manager who led furniture fittings maker Julius Blum GmbH from 1983, growing it to over €2.4 billion.
Herbert Quandt
Herbert Quandt was a German industrialist who, as BMW's dominant shareholder, preserved and restructured the carmaker at the end of the 1950s; his Nazi-era record emerged publicly after 2007.
Herbert Wigwe
Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe was a Nigerian banker who co-founded Access Bank in 2002, built it into Africa's largest retail bank, and died in a 2024 helicopter crash.
Herd behavior
Herd behavior in economics is the pattern in which individuals do what others are doing rather than act on their own private information, as in informational cascades.
Herfindahl–Hirschman index
The Herfindahl–Hirschman index (HHI) measures market concentration by summing squared market shares, running from near 0 to 10,000 under monopoly, and is used by regulators to screen mergers.
Heritage Healthcare Innovation
Heritage Healthcare Innovation is a family of four healthcare investment funds raised by Heritage Group, a Nashville, Tennessee private equity firm founded in 1986, whose fourth fund closed at over $370 million in 2025.
Herman Narula
Herman Narula, born 1988, is a British technology founder and CEO who co-founded Improbable in 2012, a London virtual worlds company valued above $1 billion after a SoftBank investment in 2017.
Hermann Simon (German business academic)
Hermann Simon is a German business academic and management consultant who co-founded the pricing consultancy Simon-Kucher & Partners in Bonn in 1985 and originated the "Hidden Champions" concept.
Hermanto Tanoko
Hermanto Tanoko, born 1962 in Malang, is an Indonesian businessman who controls the Avia Avian paint group with his brother Wijono and ranks among Indonesia's richest people.