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| Year | Name | Title/Company |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Eric Johnson ’72, P’08 | President and CEO of Baldwin Richardson Foods |
| 2019 | Niraj Shah and Steve Conine | Co-founders of Wayfair |
| 2019 | Roger Enrico ’65, H’86 | Former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Inc.; Former Executive Chairman of DreamWorks |
| 2019 | Sara Blakely | Founder and CEO of SPANX Inc. |
| 2019 | Jesse Itzler | Co-founder of Marquis Jet |
| 2018 | Juan Roig | President of Mercadona |
| 2017 | C. Dean Metropoulos ’67, MBA’68 | Chairman and CEO of Metropoulos & Co |
| 2017 | Harry Susilo P'96 | Founder and Chairman of the Sekar Group |
| 2016 | Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Founder, Chairwoman and CEO of Care.com |
| 2016 | Stephen Kaufer | CEO and Co-founder of TripAdvisor |
| 2016 | H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum | Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline & Group |
| 2015 | Dorothy Cann Hamilton | Founder of the International Culinary Center |
| 2015 | Doug Rauch | Founder and President of Daily Table; Former CEO of Conscious Capitalism; Past President of Trader Joe’s |
| 2015 | Jaime Gilinski | Chairman, Banco GNB Sudameris SA |
| 2014 | Diane Hessan | Founder and Chairman of C Space |
| 2014 | Alan Trefler | Founder and CEO of Pegasystems |
| 2014 | Graham Weston | Former Chairman of Rackspace Hosting Inc. |
| 2012 | Scott D. Cook | Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Intuit Inc. |
| 2012 | Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande | President and Chairman of Sparta Group LLC |
| 2012 | Howard H. Stevenson P'03 | Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus; Former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company |
| 2011 | Ralph J. Roberts | Founder of Comcast Corporation |
| 2011 | Brian L. Roberts | Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation |
| 2011 | Eileen Fisher | Clothing Designer and Founder of EILEEN FISHER Inc. |
| 2010 | Henri A. Termeer | Former Chairman, President, and CEO of Genzyme Corporation |
| 2008 | Ernesto Bertarelli '89 | Chairman of Waypoint Capital Group; Co-chair of Bertarelli Foundation |
| 2008 | Sunil Bharti Mittal | Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises Ltd. |
| 2008 | Lee Man Tat | Chairman of Lee Kum Kee |
| 2007 | Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. | Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media |
| 2007 | Geoff Molson MBA'96 | Owner, President & CEO of Montreal Canadiens |
| 2006 | Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. | Founder and CEO of Magic Johnson Companies |
| 2006 | Robert K. Kraft H’02 | Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Kraft Group |
| 2003 | Michael R. Bloomberg | Founder of Bloomberg L.P. |
| 2003 | Ben Cohen | Co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Inc. |
| 2002 | Steven B. Dodge | Founder of American Tower Corporation |
| 2002 | Leonard Riggio | Founder and Executive Chairman of Barnes & Noble Inc. |
| 2001 | Robert Davis MBA’85 | General Partner, Highland Capital Partners; Founder, Former President and CEO at Lycos Inc. |
| 2001 | Kay Koplovitz | Founder of USA Networks |
| 2001 | Robert M. Rosenberg H'97, P'94 | Former CEO of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins |
| 2000 | Robert Annunziata | Founder of Teleport Communications Group |
| 2000 | Patricia Gallup | Chairman, CAO, and Co-founder of PC Connection Inc. |
| 2000 | George N. Hatsopoulos G'20 | Co-founder of Thermo Electron Corporation |
| 2000 | Pleasant T. Rowland | Founder of The Pleasant Company (American Girl Brand) |
| 1999 | Ellen Gordon | Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Tootsie Roll Industries Inc. |
| 1999 | Marie Gray | Co-founder of St. John Knits Inc. |
| 1999 | Robert Gray | Co-founder of St. John Knits Inc. |
| 1999 | Masayoshi Son | Founder, Chairman, and CEO of SOFTBANK Inc. |
| 1998 | Richard J. Egan P'89 | Co-founder of EMC Corporation |
| 1998 | Abraham D. Gosman P’88 | Founder of The Meditrust Companies |
| 1997 | Willie D. Davis | Former President and CEO of All-Pro Broadcasting Company |
| 1997 | Leo Kahn | Co-founder of Staples Inc. |
| 1997 | Leslie C. Quick, Jr. | Co-founder of Quick & Reilly |
| 1997 | Thomas G. Stemberg | Co-founder of Staples Inc. |
| 1996 | Sir. Richard Branson | Founder of The Virgin Group |
| 1996 | Ely Callaway Jr. | Founder of Callaway Golf |
| 1996 | A. Andronico Luksic | Former Chairman of the Luksic Group |
| 1995 | The Honorable Craig R. Benson '77, H'03 | CEO of Soft Draw Investments; former Chairman and CEO at Cabletron Systems, Inc.; Former Governor of the State of New Hampshire |
| 1995 | Arthur M. Blank ’63, H’98 | Owner and Chairman, Blank Family of Businesses; Co-founder of The Home Depot |
| 1995 | Edward C. Johnson III | Former Chairman and CEO of Fidelity Investments |
| 1995 | S. Robert Levine | Former President and CEO of Cabletron Systems Inc. |
| 1995 | Bernie Marcus | Co-founder, former Chairman and CEO of The Home Depot |
| 1994 | Leon A. Gorman | Former President and Chairman of L.L.Bean Inc. |
| 1994 | Earl G. Graves | Founder of Black Enterprise Magazine; Chairman of Earl G. Graves Ltd. |
| 1993 | Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, Jr. P’87 | Former Chairman and CEO, Stolt Tankers and Terminals (Holdings) S.A. |
| 1993 | Robert A. Swanson | Co-founder of Genentech |
| 1992 | Ewing Marion Kauffman | Founder of Marion Merrell Dow Inc. |
| 1992 | John C. Merritt '61 | Owner and President of Dockside Marine Supply; Former Chairman and CEO of Van Kampen Merritt Holding Corp. |
| 1992 | Anita Roddick | Founder of The Body Shop |
| 1992 | Leslie H. Wexner | Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Limited Brands Corporation |
| 1991 | Amar G. Bose | Founder of Bose Corporation |
| 1991 | John R. Furman | Founder of Furman Lumber Inc. |
| 1991 | William G. McGowan | Founder of MCI Communications Corporation |
| 1990 | Paul Fireman H'94, P'00 | Chairman of Fireman Capital Partners |
| 1990 | Sandra L. Kurtzig | Founder and Chairman of Kenandy; Founder of ASK Computer Systems Inc. |
| 1989 | Alan Bond | Chairman of the Board, Dallhold Investments, Pty. Ltd. |
| 1989 | Patrick J. McGovern | Co-founder of International Data Group (IDG) |
| 1989 | Sir Michael W.J. Smurfit | Former Chairman and CEO, Jefferson Smurfit Group p.l.c. |
| 1988 | Kazuo Inamori | Founder of Kyocera and KDDI |
| 1988 | Edward Lowe | Founder of Edward Lowe Industries Inc. and the Edward Lowe Foundation |
| 1988 | J. Willard Marriott Jr. | Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Marriott International |
| 1987 | Sir John Marks Templeton H’92 | Founder of Templeton Growth Fund and John Templeton Foundation |
| 1987 | Gilbert Trigano | Former President Club Méditerranée, S.A. |
| 1986 | Godtfred Kirk Christiansen | Former Managing Director of The LEGO Group |
| 1986 | Trammell Crow | Founding Partner of Trammell Crow Company |
| 1986 | Ueli Prager | Founder of Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts |
| 1985 | Donald C. Burr | Founder of PEOPLExpress Airlines |
| 1985 | Rupert Murdoch | Founder of News Corporation |
| 1985 | Peter J. Sprague H’88 | Chariman and Founder of Satellite Displays; Former Chairman of National Semiconductor Corporation |
| 1984 | Henry W. Bloch | Co-founder of H&R Block Inc. |
| 1984 | John J. Cullinane | President of The Cullinane Group Inc.; Former Chairman and CEO, Cullinet Software Inc. |
| 1984 | John K. Hanson | Former Chairman of Winnebago Industries |
| 1984 | Heinz Nixdorf | Founder of Nixdorf Computer AG |
| 1983 | Nolan K. Bushnell | Chairman, Pizza Time Theatres Inc. |
| 1983 | Frederic C. Hamilton ’48, H'98, P'82 | Former Chairman of The Hamilton Companies LLC |
| 1983 | Sidney R. Rabb | Former Chairman of The Stop & Shop Companies |
| 1983 | Frederick W. Smith | Founder and Chairman of Federal Express Corporation |
| 1982 | Wally Amos | Founder of Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Co. L.L.C. |
| 1982 | William C. Norris | Former Chairman and CEO of Control Data Corporation |
| 1982 | Carl G. Sontheimer | Founder of Cuisinarts Inc. |
| 1981 | Gustavo A. Cisneros ’68, H’19 | Chairman of Cisneros |
| 1981 | Franklin P. "Frank" Perdue | Former President and CEO of Perdue Farms |
| 1981 | Marcus Wallenberg | Former Honorary Chairman of Skandinaviska-Enskilda Banken |
| 1981 | An Wang | Co-founder of Wang Laboratories Inc. |
| 1980 | J. Peter Grace | Former President and CEO of W.R. Grace and Company |
| 1980 | Mary Hudson | Co-founder of Hudson Oil Company |
| 1980 | Mary Wells Lawrence H'72 | Founding President of Wells, Rich, Greene |
| 1980 | Lewis E. Lehrman H'81 | Founder of L.E. Lehrman & Co. |
| 1979 | Thomas Mellon Evans G'04 | Former Chairman of Crane Company |
| 1979 | Lee Byung-chul | Founder of Samsung Group |
| 1979 | John H. Johnson | Founder of Johnson Publishing Company |
| 1979 | John Erik Jonsson | Co-founder of Texas Instruments Inc. |
| 1979 | Diane von Fürstenberg | Founder and Chairwoman of DVF Studio LLC |
| 1978 | Soichiro Honda | Founder of Honda Motor Car Company Ltd. |
| 1978 | Ray A. Kroc | Founding Chairman of McDonald's Corporation |
| 1978 | Royal Little | Founder of Textron Inc. |
| 1978 | Kenneth H. Olsen | Co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation |
| 1978 | Berry Gordy | Founder of Motown Records |
From the accomplishments and stories of ADE honorees come valuable lessons in business, teamwork, and making an impact on the world. Here’s what we learned from some of the academy’s recent inductees.