Chief executive officer
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A chief executive officer, also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of a company or a nonprofit organization.
A group of Fortune 500 CEOs in 2015
Brad D. Smith, CEO of Intuit from 2008 to 2018
John D. Rockefeller
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John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in history. Rockefeller was born into a la
Chief executive officer
…point of communication between the board of directors and the company. Business publicists since the days of Edward Bernays (1891–1995) and his client John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) and even more successfully the corporate publicists for Henry Ford, promoted the concept of the "celebrity CEO". Business journalists have…
Rockefeller in 1895
Rockefeller's birthplace in Richford, New York
Rockefeller at age 18
Rockefeller in 1875