Ben Bernanke

Ben Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in February 2006. Bernanke, from South Carolina, holds a B.A. degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He taught at Princeton, Stanford, NYU and MIT, and has authored many articles and books. Bernanke's 14-year Federal Reserve Board term ends in January 2020.
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Henry Luce

Henry Luce was one of America's most influential publishers and is considered the Father of the modern magazine. Henry Luce and partner Briton Hadden published the first edition of Time Magazine in 1923. The success of Time was followed up by Fortune in 1930, Life in 1936, and Sports Illustrated in 1954. Life magazine was notable for introducing photojournalism to American mass media.
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80/80 designer’s rule of thumb

80/80 designer’s rule of thumb. To keep things within scope and budget, always design for the rule and not the exception. The 80/80 design rule of thumb says design for what 80% percent of people want to do 80% of the time.
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McDonalds

Ray Kroc was the first businessman to apply the principles of mass production to restaurants when he introduced Americans to McDonalds. Kroc convinced the McDonald brothers of California to sell their small chain to him in 1961, which he turned into one of the biggest franchise bonanzas in history of business. Billions of hamburgers have been sold from thousands of McDonalds.
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Children's Digital Library

Children were a key staffing element in the design of the International Children's Digital Library at the University of Baltimore, as reported in the Baltimore Daily Record. Growing up in a world permeated by interactive media, the children were seen as unique partners in discovery and as native guides in creating and constructing their virtual worlds for the project.
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Jack Welch

"If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside the end is in sight." -- Jack Welch.
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Alka Seltzer

There is a marketing legend about how Alka Seltzer doubled its sales. The heartburn and indigestion product had seen sales decline into the 1960s and was in need of a jump start. Their ad agency at the time came up with the idea of telling its customers to take a double-dose of the tablets. The campaign was a huge success as Alka Seltzer sales and profits doubled.
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