Today’s “Captains of Industry”



Today’s “Captains of Industry”

Robber Barons in Disguise?

- Use the Internet to research your assigned captain of industry from the current day.  (See the list below)

- Respond to the following questions:

(1) Describe the industry.

(2) How did he/she acquire their wealth?

(3) What are his/her business strategies?

(4) Do they make charitable contributions?  Describe.

(5) Compare/contrast with the captains of industry in the Gilded Age.  Is your person a "captain" or "robber baron"?  (Have they had a postive or negatie impact on society?  Explain.)

- List of today’s “captains”:

|Bill Gates (Microsoft) |Stephen Wynn (hotels/casinos) |

|Warren Buffet (investments) |Richard Schulze (Best Buy) |

|Sheldon Adelson (hotels/casinos) |Leonard & Ronald Lauder (Estee Lauder) |

|Lawrence Ellison (Oracle) |T. Boone Pickens (oil) |

|Sergey Brin & Larry Page (Google) |Steven Spielberg (movies) |

|Michael Dell (Dell Computers) |Donald Trump (real estate) |

|Paul Allen (Microsoft) |Mark Cuban () |

|The Walton Family (Wal-Mart) |Michael Milken (investments) |

|Forrest Mars (candy) |Oprah Winfrey (media) |

|Michael Bloomberg (media) |William Hilton (hotels) |

|Philip Knight (Nike) |Robert E. “Ted” Turner (cable TV) |

|Pierre Omidyar (eBay) |S. Daniel Abraham (Slim-Fast) |

|Rupert Murdoch (Fox) |Archie Aldis “Red” Emmerson (lumber) |

|Jeffrey Bezos (Amazon) |William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing gum) |

|Sumner Redstone (Viacom) |Jerry Yang (Yahoo) |

|David Geffen (music, movies) |Fred DeLuca (Subway) |

|Steven Jobs (Apple) |Jerral Jones (Dallas Cowboys) |

|Ralph Lauren (fashion) |Roy Disney (Walt Disney) |

|Ty Warner (Beanie Babies) |George Steinbrenner III (NY Yankees) |

|George Lucas (Star Wars) |Sean “Diddy” Combs (hip-hop impresario) |

- Forbes 400 List of Richest Americans:



- Compile your research, including your answers to the questions above, in a simple 1-2 page report. [10 points]

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