| 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 |
