Which American business magnate and financer argues that The Science of Success has credibility due to Koch's immense personal business success?
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The Science of Success The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company is a book written by Charles Koch in which he delineates his philosophy of Market Based Management (MBM). Koch, the CEO of Koch Industries, Inc., wrote it in 2007. While many similarly-titled books by other authors exist, T. Boone Pickens argues that Koch's immense personal business success lends credibility to the book's concept.
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T. Boone Pickens Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (born May 22, 1928), known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November, 2016, Pickens has a net worth of $500 million.
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Howard H. Stevenson Howard H. Stevenson (June 27, 1941) is the Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Forbes Magazine described him as Harvard Business School’s “lion of entrepreneurship” in a 2011 article. Howard is credited with defining entrepreneurship as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control.” "INC Magazine" described Howard’s definition of entrepreneurship as “the best answer ever.”
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Robert S. Langer Robert Samuel Langer, Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948 in Albany, New York) is an American chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Lucille Roberts Lucille Roberts (December 7, 1943 – July 17, 2003) was an American businesswoman and entrepreneur who founded the Lucille Roberts chain of health clubs. A self-proclaimed "exercise nut", she turned her passion for working out into a health club empire worth $30 million at the time of her death.
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Fred C. Koch Fred Chase Koch ( ; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which, under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons, Charles and David, is listed by "Forbes," as of 2015, as the second-largest privately held company in the United States.
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Business guru A business guru or management guru is a leading authority on business practices and can be defined as 'a person with influential ideas or theories about business'. The earliest use of the term business guru can be tracked back to the 1960s being used in "Business Week". There are no existing qualifications that make someone a business guru. The lists of people who have been accepted as business gurus have constantly changed over time. However, there are some people who have been accepted by a great majority as a business guru and also some organizations which have created their own lists of gurus. One English writer has described management gurus as "overwhelmingly a US phenomenon."
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Ephraim R. McLean Ephraim R. McLean (born Jan 7, 1936) is an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Information Systems at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, known for his work with William H. DeLone on the information systems success model and on "measurement of information systems effectiveness."
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Bob Stiller Robert P. Stiller is an American billionaire who founded the Keurig Green Mountain coffee company in 1993. He graduated from New York Military Academy and Parsons College. In 2001, he was named Forbes's first "Entrepreneur of the Year" and one of Investors Business Daily's "Top 10 leaders and successful CEOs".
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Travis Kalanick Travis Cordell Kalanick ( ; born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman.
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Midas Touch (book) Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich — And Why Most Don't is a non-fiction book about personal finance, co-authored by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki. The book was published in hardcover format in 2011. The coauthors became familiar with each other through mutual work at The Learning Annex, and "The Art of the Deal". Trump was impressed by Kiyosaki's writing success with "Rich Dad Poor Dad". The coauthors then wrote "Why We Want You to be Rich" together in 2006, and followed it up with "Midas Touch" in 2011.
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Emil Theodor Kocher Emil Theodor Kocher (25 August 1841 – 27 July 1917) was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid. Among his many accomplishments are the introduction and promotion of aseptic surgery and scientific methods in surgery, specifically reducing the mortality of thyroidectomies below 1% in his operations.
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Christof Koch Christof Koch ( ; born November 13, 1956) is an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural bases of consciousness. He is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
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Robert F. Smith (investor) Robert Frederick Smith (born December 1, 1962) is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. A former chemical engineer and investment banker, he is the founder, chairman and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Smith was ranked by "Forbes" in 2016 as the 274th richest person in America, the second wealthiest African American on the list after Oprah Winfrey. He was #688 on "Forbes" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, with a net worth of US$3 billion.. In 2017, Smith was named by "Forbes" as one of the 100 greatest living business minds.
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Leo Koch Leo Francis Koch (February 8, 1916 – November 14, 1982) was an American academic. An Assistant Professor of biology at the University of Illinois, he was fired for promoting premarital sex.
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Robert Eisner Robert Eisner (January 17, 1922 – November 25, 1998) was an American author and William R. Kenan professor of economics at Northwestern University. He was recognized throughout the United States for his expertise and knowledge of macroeconomics and the economics of business cycles. He was a regular contributor to the "Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", "Chicago Tribune", and "The Los Angeles Times", primarily covering national economic policy and reform.
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Kochouseph Chittilappilly Kochouseph Thomas Chittilappilly is an Indian business magnate, writer, investor, inventor, and philanthropist.
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Jon Stein Jonathan "Jon" Stein is an American fintech entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder and chief executive of Betterment, the largest independent online financial advisor in the U.S., with over 9 billion in assets under management. Under the umbrella of Betterment Holdings Inc., Stein manages Betterment's core retail platform, often referred to as a "robo-advisor"; a 401(k) platform called Betterment for Business, and a digital advisory platform called Betterment for Advisors.
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Nino Kader Nino Kader is an American entrepreneur and author known for PR and digital marketing expertise. He regularly provides technology commentary and analysis on TV. He founded International Reputation Management foreseeing the impact Googling would have on personal reputations and was featured on the front page of The Washington Post. He advises numerous high-profile figures and international organizations.
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Frank Hanna III Frank J. Hanna III is an American entrepreneur, merchant banker and philanthropist. He was one of three entrepreneurs profiled in the Acton Institute's documentary film "The Call of the Entrepreneur".
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Warren Cassell Jr. Warren Cassell Jr. (born May 7, 1999) is an American-Montserratian businessman and journalist working as a financial writer for Investopedia. He has produced one-on-one interviews with a range of American and international public figures including billionaire entrepreneur Charles Koch, Christiane Amanpour, Natalia Jiménez, Peter Schiff and Sebastián Marroquín, the only son of the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Tom Koch Thomas Freeman "Tom" Koch (May 13, 1925 – March 22, 2015) was an American humorist and writer. He wrote for "Mad Magazine" for 37 years.