Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dhirubhai Ambani: Reliance Industries -- Bernard Arnault: LMVH -- Mary Kay Ash: Mary Kay Cosmetics -- Vinita Bali: Britannia Industries -- Jeff Bezos: Amazon -- Sara Blakely: Spanx -- William Boeing: Boeing -- Richard Branson: Virgin Group -- Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway -- Andrew Carnegie: Carnegie Steel -- Dhanin Chearavanont: Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group -- Eva Chen: Trend Micro -- Chung Ju-yung: Hyundai -- Terence Conran: Habitat -- Michael Dell: Dell -- Walt Disney: The Walt Disney Co. -- Dong Mingzhu: Gree Electric Appliances -- James Dyson: Dyson -- Thomas Edison: Edison General Electric Company -- Henry Ford: Ford Motor Company -- Bill Gates: Microsoft -- Louis Gerstner: IBM -- Carlos Ghosn: Renault-Nissan -- King C. Gillette: Gillette -- Bill Gore: W.L. Gore & Associates -- Katharine Graham: The Washington Post Group -- Philip Green: Arcadia -- Andrew Grove: Intel -- Romi Haan: Haan Corporation -- John Harvey-Jones: ICI -- Bill Hewlett & David Packard: Hewlett-Packard.

Soichiro Honda: Honda -- Tony Hsie: LinkExchange, Zappos -- Lee Iacocca: Ford, Chrysler -- Mohamed 'Mo' Ibrahim: MSI, Celtel -- Steve Jobs: Apple -- Herb Kelleher: Southwest Airlines -- Vinod Khosla: Sun Microsystems -- Gerard Kleisterlee: Philips -- Phil Knight: Nike -- Koo In-hwoi: LG Corporation -- Koo Bon-Moo: LG Corporation -- Ray Kroc: McDonald's -- A.G. Lafley: Procter & Gamble -- Estée Lauder: Estée Lauder -- Lee Byung-chull: Samsung -- Robin Li: Baidu -- Li Ka-shing: Hutchison Whampoa -- Liu Chuanzhi: Lenovo Group -- Liu Yonghao: New Hope -- Ma Huateng: Tencent -- Jack Ma: Alibaba -- John Mackey: Whole Foods Market -- Anand Mahindra: Mahindra & Mahindra -- Annie Turnbo Malone: Poro -- Michael Marks: Marks & Spencer -- Konosuke Matsushita: Panasonic -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: Biocon -- William McKnight: The 3M Company -- George W. Merck: Merck & Co -- Lakshmi Mittal: ArcelorMittal -- Sunil Bharti Mittal: Bharti Airtel -- Akio Morita: Sony -- Alan Mulally: Ford Motor Company -- Anne Mulcahy: Xerox -- Rupert Murdoch: News Corporation -- N.R. Narayana Murthy: Infosys.

Ning Gaoning: COFCO -- Indra Nooyi: PepsiCo -- Archie Norman: Asda -- Jorma Ollila: Nokia -- Larry Page: Google -- Azim Premji: Wipro -- Gina Rinehart: Hancock Prospecting -- John D. Rockefeller: Standard Oil -- Anita Roddick: The Body Shop -- Howard Schultz: Starbucks -- Alfred P. Sloan: General Motors -- Darwin Smith: Kimberley-Clark -- Fred Smith: FedEx -- Martin Sorrell: WPP Group -- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata: Tata Group -- Ratan Tata: Tata Group -- Kiichiro Toyoda: Toyota -- Cornelius Vanderbilt: Steamships and Railways -- Sam Walton: Wal-Mart -- Cher Wang: HTC -- Wang Shi: China Vanke -- Perween Warsi: S & A Foods -- Thomas J. Watson: IBM -- Jack Welch: General Electric -- Meg Whitman: eBay -- Jerry Yang: Yahoo -- Zhang Jindong: Suning Group -- Zhang Ruimin: Haier -- Zhang Yin: Nine Dragons Paper -- Zong Qinghou: Wahaha -- Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook.