21,337 articles
John Bates Clark Medal
The John Bates Clark Medal is an award given by the American Economic Association to an economist under forty working in the United States, first awarded in 1947.
John Berton
John Berton is a venture capital investor who co-founded Georgian in Toronto in 2008 with Justin LaFayette and Simon Chong, leading its investor relations and capital formation.
John Bisi
John Bisi is an American cancer scientist who co-founded Incyclix Bio in 2020 and serves as its Senior Vice President of Research and Development in Durham, North Carolina.
John Bollinger
John Bollinger is an American financial analyst and president of Bollinger Capital Management, best known for creating Bollinger Bands, the volatility-based trading bands he developed in the early 1980s.
John Buttrick
John Buttrick is a venture capitalist and former corporate lawyer who has been a partner at Union Square Ventures since 2010, focusing on financial services investing.
John C. Bogle
John C. Bogle, known as Jack Bogle, was an American investor who founded the Vanguard Group in 1975 and created the first index mutual fund for individual investors.
John C. Devereux
John C. Devereux, born John Corish Devereux, was an Irish-born merchant and banker in Utica, New York, who became the city's first elected mayor in 1840.
John C. Maxwell
John C. Maxwell is an American leadership author, speaker, and coach who wrote The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and founded the EQUIP nonprofit and Maxwell Leadership.
John Castle
John Castle is an American private equity investor who co-founded the New York merchant bank Castle Harlan in 1987 and is regarded as a pioneer of the private equity limited partnership.
John Chisum
John Simpson Chisum was an American cattleman known as the Cattle King of the Pecos, who ran the largest open-range cattle operation in the American West.
John Chowning
John Chowning, born 1934, is an American composer and Stanford professor who discovered FM synthesis in 1967; Stanford licensed it to Yamaha, earning over $20 million and powering the DX7.
John Christodoulou
John Christodoulou, also known as Yiannakis Theophani Christodoulou, is a Cyprus-born British property billionaire based in Monaco who founded and owns the Yianis Group, a London property company centered on Canary Wharf.
John Cohlan
John Cohlan is an American business executive who co-founded Margaritaville Holdings with singer Jimmy Buffett in 1997 and leads the brand across restaurants, resorts, and a cruise line.
John Connaughton
John Connaughton is an American private equity investor and Chair of Bain Capital, the Boston-based investment firm managing roughly $225 billion, which he joined in 1989.
John Connors
John Connors is an American venture capitalist, a managing partner at Ignition Partners in Bellevue, Washington, known for Splunk and for his earlier career as Microsoft's chief financial officer.
John Crane
John Crane is a British engineering company founded in Chicago in 1917 that makes mechanical seals, couplings, and filtration equipment; it has been part of Smiths Group since 2000.
John Cullinane
John Cullinane is an American software entrepreneur who founded Cullinane Corporation, later Cullinet Software, in Massachusetts in 1968, the first software company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
John Curtius
John Curtius is a venture capital investor who led Tiger Global's software and B2B investing from 2017 to 2022, making over 250 investments, before founding Cedar Investment Management.
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) was an American industrialist who built Standard Oil into the dominant US oil refiner, was forced to dissolve it in 1911, and gave away over $500 million.
John D. Rockefeller III
John D. Rockefeller III (John Davison Rockefeller 3rd, 1906–1978) was an American philanthropist who founded the Population Council and the Asia Society and was Lincoln Center's first president.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874–1960) was an American financier and philanthropist who gave an estimated $537 million to charity, including $56 million to restore Colonial Williamsburg.
John Davenport Siddeley
John Davenport Siddeley (1866–1953) was an English motor-industry manager and aircraft manufacturer who built Siddeley-Deasy in Coventry into a major war contractor and led Armstrong Siddeley.
John Donahoe
John Donahoe is an American business executive who was president and CEO of Nike from January 2020 to October 2024, after leading Bain & Company, eBay, and ServiceNow.
John Doran (venture capitalist)
John Doran, born 1978, is an Irish venture capital investor at TCV who led investments in Revolut, Klarna, and Mollie and became the firm's co-managing partner in 2022.
John Dougery
John Dougery is an American venture capitalist who co-founded and leads Inventus Capital Partners, an early-stage firm investing across the United States and India with offices in Menlo Park and Bengaluru.
John E. Kelly III
John E. Kelly III is an American semiconductor and computing executive who spent 40 years at IBM, led IBM Research and Watson, and retired as executive vice president in 2020.
John Elkann
John Elkann, also known as Jaki Elkann, is an Italian businessman who leads the Agnelli family holdings as CEO of Exor and Executive Chairman of Stellantis and Ferrari.
John Ferolito
John Ferolito is an American beverage entrepreneur who co-founded AriZona Iced Tea with Don Vultaggio in 1992 and was bought out for about $1 billion in 2015.
John Fitzgerald (businessman)
John Fitzgerald was named by Cantor Fitzgerald's own corporate history as co-founder, with Bernard Gerald Cantor, of the New York bond brokerage founded in 1945.
John Fremont McCullough
John Fremont McCullough, known as "Grandpa McCullough," was an Illinois dairyman who with his son developed soft-serve ice cream and co-founded Dairy Queen in 1940.