Marissa Mayer is the CEO for Yahoo! Inc., and began her career in high-tech companies with a thirteen year long tenure at Google. During her time at Google in the early days, most users thought of Yahoo as being the Internet. Armed with an education from Stanford and a relentless work-ethic, Mayer was able to transform Google from a venture capitalist seedling to the behemoth everyone knows today. While having many roles at Google, she had significant influence on products and features that affect the daily lives of users so much to the point that Google’s own name is now also considered a verb. Google’s success has also disrupted competitor standings, such as Yahoo, by knocking them off their once lofty perch.
Originally from Wausau, Wisconsin, Mayer was born into a middle-class family on May 30, 1975. Her father was a civil engineer with a solid work-ethic, and her mother was an art teacher, who saw to it that Marissa grew up experiencing a variety of hobbies that gave her confidence and led to an attention to detail that could only be rivaled by the late Steve Jobs. The combination of her father’s technical prowess and work ethic, along with her mother’s artistic aptitude, developed Marissa with a foundation that would catapult her to success.
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Upon graduating, she had a teaching position lined-up at Carnegie Mellon University, but a Stanford advisor encouraged her to talk with Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, a little known start-up at the time. In 1999 Mayer started working for Google as a coder. She was the company’s 20th employee and the first female hired due to the founders initiative of wanting to create a culture of a diversified
After graduating from Loyola University Chicago, she generated the idea of Jewelry Box and She gave a start to her career by opening her own business for the first time.
Lori was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1969. (Lori Greiner np) As a child she didn't have the best life at home due to her parents getting divorced when she was nine years old. (Lori Greiner np) She took this and used it as motivation to be what she is today. She went to college and majored in Communications, and while she was a student, she began selling her own jewelry on the side. (Lori Greiner np) This was the start of her career as an entrepreneur. Her first product, picked up from J.C. Penny, was a box that was used to organize earrings. (Lori Greiner np) This is the product that began to make her wealthy. Since then, she has produced over 500 products and patented 120. (Meet Lori np) She also has a show on QVC called “Clever and Unique Creations by Lori Greiner.” (Meet
Andrea Jung was born in 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Jung graduated magna cum laude at Princeton University and planned to continue to law school afterwards. Jung had gotten a job training her to be a manager at Bloomingdale’s, allowing her to step into the field of law. She did so exceedingly well at this job that she continued to a different job and began her debut at I. Magnin & Company as senior vice president, general merchandising manager. Next, she handled issues concerning accessories, cosmetics and apparel as the executive vice president of Neiman Marcus. Law quickly vanished as the fashion world approached Jung. In 1993, Jung joined Avon Products, Inc. as a consultant and she was soon promoted for her hard work in 1994 as the product marketing group president for U.S. operations. Jung worked on introducing more modern lines while continuing the company’s traditional branding efforts. She introduced successes such as the Avon Apparel line and suggested getting rid of a large number of Avon’s old fragrances to make way for new ones. Jung spent time getting to know the company and thrived rapidly at the top. In 1996, she became the global marketing president and in 1997 became the executive vice president and president of global marketing and new business. Jung’s major responsibilities were centered on market research, joint ventures and strategic planning. Soon after, she became president and chief operating officer, with responsibility for all business units of Avon worldwide. Since 1998, Jung has been on Avon’s board of directors and in 1999, when the company wasn’t doing so well, Jung was named CEO of Avon Products Inc. at 43 years old and the first female CEO in the history o...
Ellen Kullman, shares a mixed background. Though born in Turkey and raised in Italy, her parents are both of Jewish Iranian descent. However she grew up there since the age of five as a permanent resident who never became Italian. She further traveled to the United States on a student visa, a work visa, obtained her green card, and finally became a U.S. citizen. She holds a bachelor of sciences degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University and a master’s degree in management from Kellog/University. Here is how she reached the top: a Sales Rep at Westinghouse where she discovered her passion for business and a Management Trainee at General Electric. She joined DuPont as a Marketing Manager in 1988 where she quickly moved up the corporate ladder and ultimately became the first female CEO of the 210 year old organization in January 1, 2009. Away from work, she married and had three children. Ms. Kullman travels the world to promote face to face relationships with her enormous corporate team but believes her own family is the most important. She is the 19th executive to lead the company founded in 1802. Prior to becoming CEO, Ms. Kullman was president of the company from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2008. In 2012, Ms. Kullman was ranked at number five in Fortune’s list of Most Powerful Women. Though DuPont is known for its dominance in chemicals, since becoming CEO Ms. Kullman has pushed the 210 year old company into unexpected new businesses (World of CEOs Dossiers, 2012).
Wendy Martinez was raised in Cumming, Georgia after being brought by her parents to the U.S. from Mexico to provide her a better future than their own. Her mother worked tirelessly as cleaning personnel at a company and her father
Helen Levitt was born and raised in Brooklyn NY. After dropping out of high school she began working for a commercial photographer, where she learnt the technical aspects of what was to become her profession. Around 1937 at the age of about 24, she purchased a second hand Leica camera and – intrigued by children’s chalk drawings she would see around her neighbourhood – started to take photos of her own.
Additionally, she grew up and spent her childhood in the South of Chicago. She was a fashion model since her early life.
Maria Tallchief had an artistic childhood. She was born on January 24, 1925, in Fairfax, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian Reserve. Her father was a full-blooded Osage Native American. However, her mother was Scottish and Irish. As a child, Tallchief loved playing outside. She enjoyed practicing piano and doing ballet, too (Technological Solutions, Inc.). Sometimes, her mother would sneak her to see an Osage pow-wow, so she could experience their culture through what she loved. The arts had such a large impact on her that she devoted most of her free time to piano and ballet. This time of happiness did not last long, however. When Tallchief was eight, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, and everything changed.
Influencing a group of individuals to achieve a common goal is leadership in its simplest form and the three people responsible for this are Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer; Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products; and Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology. Overseeing the company's technical and business strategy since 2001, Dr. Schmidt’s leadership has helped the company grow from a startup to a global enterprise while maintaining a culture of strong innovation. Larry Page the founding CEO grew the company to over 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as president of products. Sergey Brin directs the research efforts of Google with areas of focus in search engines, information extraction from unstructured sources, and data mining of large text collections and scientific data. However Dr. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin all share responsibility for Google’s day-to-day operations (Google Management, 2010).
He has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology. Which he responsible for the external matters of Google like building partnerships and broader business. Sergey Brin, Co-Founder, shared responsibility for the company’s day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt. Nikesh Arora Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer, he led Google’s global direct sales operations in the European, Middle Eastern and African markets. David C. Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer.... ...
The leaders of Google have well understood the means to make Google’s company different to the other companies. They established since the beginning an original way of work, controlling the recruitment of the new members, and imposing their vision on the employees.
Google was founded by two University of Stanford graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Their main objective of founding the company was to be able to retrieve specific data from massive amounts of information. The two developed a proprietary technology that would become the ultimate search engine. Initially the pair worked out of their dorm room, then a garage, and once they had quickly outgrown these "facilities" they had moved on to a much larger facility where they reside to this day. It seemed to be a matter of time before they had conquered the continental United States, and had begun to eye the lands across the pond.
Google is a public corporation that deals with Internet searching, advertising, and Web-based computing technology. All these have developed from an initial search engine and the company continues to advance even to date with partnerships and acquisition of other companies and products. All of these are due to its formulation and maintenance of a unique corporate culture that other organizations have to follow in order to be as successful (Rachet, B. 2014). What makes up Google 's strong culture are values that are widely accepted and strongly held (Rachet b. 2014). Google has topped the list of Fortune 100’s Best Companies to Work for 4 times (Kim, J. 2013). Although Google has many perks on their work campus, the real formula behind their
Google is a multi-billionaire company that was founded by Larry Paige and Sergey Brinn in September 1998. Google housed more than 40,000 employees and it is now still increasing. In 2014, the company has 53,600 employees. There are several products created by Google, some of the well-known are Google Search, Google Scholar and Google App.
2009 was a negative period for the United States economy. A big recession hit the country, and the founders of Google were trying to make a plan in order to make to limit the damage caused by an economic decline. Brin and Page the two creators of the giant Google were shocked form the situation that was occurring. Their company was feeling the effect of the economic downturn. Google’s stock price dropped 51 percent. The two entrepreneurs were trying to figure out a way to keep the company from drowning. Google main problem was how to maintain the culture that made the company successful in the previous two years. Some consequences that the company had to face was eliminating products that