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Acknowledgements
Our deepest thanks to Jim Hemak, Alice Chou, and Paul Chou for their gracious and
generous support of this book.
© JA Worldwide, 2019.
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Foreword: Jack Kosakowski, President & CEO, JA USA
1919–1928
1929–1938
1939–1948
1949–1958
1959–1968
1969–1978
1979–1988
1989–1998
1999–2008
2009–2018
JA Today
Afterword: Asheesh Advani, President & CEO, JA Worldwide
The JA Company Program
1919 Society
Global Business Hall of Fame
JA Board Chairs
JA Chief Staff Officers/CEOs

Foreword by Jack Kosakowski
On December 1, 1919, Oscar H. Benson, a government official and former educator, submitted his
resignation to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. Mr. Benson, who had spent
most of the previous decade establishing the 4H organization in his role as a Director of the Agricultural
Extension office, had decided to accept a position as the first national director of what would
soon be called “Junior Achievement.”
Junior Achievement, or JA, was the vision of business leaders Horace Moses, founder of Strathmore
Paper Company, and Theodore Vail, President of AT&T, who, along with U.S. Senator Murray Crane,
established JA in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the United States. JA was a response to the mass
migration of farm families from rural America into booming U.S. cities in the wake of industrialization.
The program was aimed at giving young people the skills they would eventually need to be
successful adults in the country’s growing urban centers.
For JA’s first 50 years, the JA Company Program was the organization’s primary offering, giving
young people the chance to set up their own businesses with the guidance of advisors from the
business community in after-school settings. Using this model, JA grew from a regional program in
the northeastern United States during the 1920s and 1930s into a national organization following
World War II.
By the mid-1950s, the first JA operation outside of the United States was established in Canada, and
by the 1960s an affiliated organization, Young Enterprise, was running in the United Kingdom. In the
following decades, JA programs would be offered throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa,
and the Middle East. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, JA
programs grew rapidly in Central Europe and former Soviet states.
JA USA students attend a
hands-on STEM program
designed to spark interest
in STEM careers.
Since our founding 100 years ago, JA programs have impacted more than 100 million young people.
They are now offered in more than 100 countries. And while the programs and delivery have
changed quite a bit during that time, one thing has remained constant: the focus on changing
young people’s lives with knowledge and critical life skills through the support of caring volunteer
mentors.
O.H. Benson was with JA for our first ten years, and then went on to support other important
youth-development organizations. He led JA with the goal of addressing the challenges of the last
century. His spirit is alive and well with JA today in a new century as we pursue our mission to inspire
and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.
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1919 –1928
After decades of protests, women throughout much of the world earn the right to vote and enter the workforce
in record numbers. Automobiles and radios begin to become affordable. We listen to jazz, dance the
Charleston, meet an anthropomorphic mouse, watch Babe Ruth’s last home run, and head to the movies as
talking films kick off the Golden Age of Hollywood.
In 1919, the Boys’ and Girls’ Bureau of the Eastern States League officially launches in Springfield,
Massachusetts, USA. The goal is to educate 8- to 12-year-olds about the world of business. In 1920, the
organization’s name changes officially to Junior Achievement.
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In 1925, U.S. President
Calvin Coolidge kicks
off a five-year, $1.5-
million JA fundraising
drive at the White
House. “Junior
Achievement is a
first-class proposal,”
he says. “Very much
worthwhile!”
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1929 –1938
1929 marks the beginning of a global depression that persists for four years and reverberates even longer.
The world mourns as Amelia Earhart—the first woman to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic—
disappears in 1937. Jesse Owens captures four Olympic Gold Medals . . . and our hearts.
The Great Depression fundamentally changes the course of JA. Without funds to attend college and few
jobs available, young people seize upon JA as an opportunity to earn a small income (or second income) by
starting real companies with real products or services.
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In 1936, an article about JA
(”Big business in miniature”)
appears in Reader’s Digest,
the highest circulating
general-interest magazine in
the United States, causing
great demand for JA’s
entrepreneurship program.
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1939 –1948
More than 50 countries participate in the Second World War, and more than 50 million lives are lost. India
and Pakistan gain independence; the United Nations establishes Israel as a Jewish state. Chuck Yeager
breaks the sound barrier while Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier.
Young men and women integrate their JA companies and work together to build profitable businesses.
The attack on Pearl Harbor postpones JA’s plans to expand nationwide, but at the war’s end in 1945, JA
organizes the first National Association Junior Achievement Conference (NAJAC), lasting one week and
featuring student competitions and keynote speakers.
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During the war, one JA student
company signs a contract with
the U.S. Army to produce 10,000
pants hangers. Another starts a
scrap-metal business, while
another manufactures baby
incubators, which are in short
supply during the war, as
suppliers transfer their
production lines to war
products.
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1949 –1958
War-time alliances fracture, leading to cold war—and a space race. At the same time, the invention of
the transport container increases imports and exports, bringing the world closer together. Elvis
Presley ain’t nothing but a hound dog, while TV stations begin broadcasting in color and Disneyland
opens for business.
In 1955, JA opens an international office in Vancouver, British Columbia, leading to expansion across
Canada in the decade ahead. As JA also expands across the United States, President Eisenhower declares
January 30 to February 5 to be the first annual “National Junior Achievement Week.”
Politicians and celebrities
begin endorsing JA, recognizing
an opportunity for
young people to embrace
capitalism during the Cold
War. Donated billboards,
radio spots, and TV ads
feature JA, and enrollment’s
on the rise again.
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1959 –1968
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I have a dream” speech and marches on Selma,
Alabama, USA. Four boys from Liverpool dominate global music charts. The first cosmonaut reaches
space. The first successful heart transplant offers hope. And Abebe Bikila wins the Olympic
marathon—while barefoot.
The Beatles aren’t the only British invasion of the decade: Young Enterprise forms in the UK, modeled on
JA in the USA. (Many years later, the two organizations will merge.) JA Puerto Rico forms. And as the Civil
Rights Movement grows in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, JA students also begin to reflect a more diverse
population.
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Starting in 1967 and
lasting nearly 20 years,
the Reader’s Digest
Speakers Corps
identifies and trains
high-achieving JA
students to speak on
behalf of JA. In total,
more than 250
students are sent out
for interviews,
speeches, and lectures.
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1969 –1978
Intel introduces the microprocessor for fast computing, email emerges as a communication tool, the
world’s first mobile phone receives a call, and both Microsoft and Apple launch. Synthetic insulin offers
hope for diabetics. Skirmishes ignite around the world, but Israel and Egypt sign the Framework for Peace.
Nadia Comaneci scores the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics.
JA celebrates 50 years in 1969, opening a location in the Philippines and, six years later, in Mexico. The Today
Show features JA, as does U.S. News & World Report, Time, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal.
JA introduces computer simulation into classroom experiences.
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In 1972, young Edward Lee
signs up for JA in the
Philippines and starts a
company that designs and
sells T-shirts. Today, more
than 40 years later, he’s
still in business with his
two JA teammates at the
helm of COL Financial, the
number-one investment
brokerage in the Philippines.
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1979 –1988
Terrorism dominates global news, but so does Lech Wałęsa’s shipyard strike, the Soviet Union’s
glasnost policy of transparency, and LiveAid’s famine relief for Ethiopia. The first woman blasts into
space, while Chernobyl melts down. IBM and Apple battle to be your personal computer. Japanese
manufacturing sets the bar for the rest of the world. The Rubik’s Cube proves intoxicating. And the
Internet is born.
After a two-year decline in membership. JA commissions The Johnston Report—including a survey of more
than 200,000 young people and adults—that fundamentally shifts JA’s focus. Although the JA Company
Program remains the organization’s flagship offering, JA begins a new era of program rollout, with opportunities
for both younger children and college students, applauded by the National Federation of Teachers.
After six decades as a largely after-school program, JA deepens its working relationship with schools,
bringing business volunteers into the classroom and creating in-school learning opportunities for young
people. Enrollment triples during JA’s seventh decade, and JA goes truly international, opening locations in
South Africa, Brazil, Costa Rica, Malta, and many more.
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In 1986, JA designs
its fifth logo, a
triangle encasing
stairs to show the
upward trajectory
of JA students.
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1989 –1998
As the Soviet Union breaks up and the Berlin Wall comes down, Pakistan elects its first female prime
minister, and a boy with a lightning-shaped scar teaches us about courage. Apartheid is dismantled in
South Africa, and Nelson Mandela is elected president. Scientists clone Dolly the sheep, Google
launches a global search engine, and the first text messages are sent.
JA continues to be truly global, expanding into Japan, China, Denmark, Tanzania, and additional countries.
The 1990s also bring sweeping political and economic change to Eastern Bloc countries. As they move to a
market-based economy, JA is there, establishing locations in Russia, Romania, Estonia, Armenia, and more.
“More than 10 million people have
graduated from JA Russia. And
many of them have succeeded in
creating startups in IT technology, in
trade technology, development
technology. Some of them succeeded
in the government. JA raises and
creates the entrepreneurial spirit.”
—Alexander Kanshin, JA Russia
alumnus and entrepreneur
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1999 –2008
The world braces for a Y2K bug and later mourns 9/11 victims. One American and two Russians take up
residence at the International Space Station. Scientists map the human genome. Facebook, YouTube, and
the iPhone emerge and become indespensible. A global recession begins in August 2008.
JA-YE Europe forms to oversee JA in European countries, JA Middle East and North Africa (MENA) forms as
INJAZ Al-Arab, and JA expands further into Asia Pacific and Africa. JA programs begin to be gamified,
blending in-person and online experiences.
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In 2000, JA begins implementing JA
Finance Park, an experiential program that
offers middle school students the chance
to make adult financial decisions in life-like
simulations. This was soon followed by the
launch of JA BizTown, designed for
elementary-school students to run a
simulated town for a day. Around this time,
Junior Achievement also became involved
with JA Job Shadow, a program that allows
high school students to “shadow” working
professionals in their places of work.
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2009 –Present
In the midst of civil wars throughout the world, the recession ends, a start-up culture emerges, and crowdsourcing
balances corporate interests. Smart appliances answer doors and order dinner. Virtual reality,
artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and design thinking are on everyone’s minds.
Now in over 100 countries, JA finishes its tenth decade with its highest enrollment in history: 11.5 million
students. JA Mexico, JA Americas, and JA Worldwide bring together students, alumni, and business leaders
for the first JA Global Youth Forum. JA demonstrates its cultural status as an answer on Jeopardy! And NGO
Advisor ranks JA as the seventh more impactful NGO on the planet.
“JA is a wonderfulmodel,
which through providing
a project-based, highly
engaging, and relevant
education is helping
students find their
passions, grow their
purpose, and realise
their dreams."
—Sir Richard Branson
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JA Today: Building the Next
Generation of Job Creators
JA Worldwide
#
7
TOP 500 WORLD
2019
NGO ADVISOR
®
Last year, JA prepared 11.5 million young people for employment and entrepreneurship,
enabling them to fully participate in the prosperity and abundance the world has to offer.
Our passionate staff around the world has unparalleled access to schools and creates an
ecosystem of experiential programs driven by business volunteers, teachers, policymakers, and
the private sector. In addition to maintaining deep relationships with our funders, we’re forging
new partnerships with high-tech startups, universities, and like-minded change agents.
JA’s hands-on curriculum begins with exposure to critical work skills—collaboration, creativity,
self-confidence, and discipline—that prepare students for college, trade school, the workforce,
or their own start-up ventures. JA students job shadow skilled mentors, challenge themselves
and their teammates during technical and business innovation challenges, and test their skills
through multiple channels and experiences. Many go on to launch JA student businesses—
often their first experience with entrepreneurship—which lays the groundwork for the next
generation of job creators.
As a result of their JA experiences, our alumni start more companies, hire more employees, and
produce significantly larger annual sales than ventures led by non-alumni. Our alumni also
save more, hold less debt, and are less likely to spend more than they earn. When compared
with the general public, JA alumni also report higher levels of household income and career
satisfaction. And they’re less likely to drop out of school, face unemployment, or collect social
insurance.
In addition to changing their own lives and improving the economic health of their
communities, JA alumni are a global force for good, looking beyond their own financial reward
to start companies that serve a social need, solve a community problem, or otherwise meet the
challenge of reaching the 2030 Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
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Alumni are three times less likely
to spend more than they earn;
they save more and have less debt.
Canada: Making An Impact: Assessing JA Canada’s Value Creation
JA alumni earn a month’s
wages more in annual salary
than non-alumni do, are 40%
more likely to become a
manager, and are 20% less
likely to be unemployed.
USA: JA USA Alumni Research Study
More than 90% of students believe
JA prepares them for the future of
employment and will help them get
a better job.
MENA: En Route to Better Employability Skills and USA: Turning
Young People of Today into Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow
OPEN
Alumni start more companies and hire more
employees, and their firms produce significantly
larger annual sales than those led by non-alumni.
United Kingdom: Impact 50 Years of Young Enterprise
More than 70% of female
alumnae believe they can
own their own businesses.
Latin America and the Caribbean: Impact of
Mujeres Emprendedoras Program
72% of students who have participated in JA entrepreneurship education
programs plan to pursue higher education.
Asia Pacific: Outcomes in Hong Kong and Indonesia; Europe: Entrepreneurship Skills Pass Self-Assessment
Alumni credit JA with promoting their understanding of business,
influencing their career goals, fostering a sense of self-belief, and
enhancing their understanding of how money works.
USA: JA USA Alumni Research Study
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Afterword by Asheesh Advani
Technological advances are emerging faster than ever. New industries and automation require new
skills. Two-thirds of today’s ten-year-olds are predicted to work in jobs that haven’t yet been invented.
Some will create their own jobs as entrepreneurs, while others will need nimble, adaptable skills that
can span a range of industries and technologies. However, even today, less than 20 percent of employers
are satisfied with the skills and knowledge of job applicants.
One-third of the world’s 1.8 billion young people—ages 15 to 29—are either not working, not in school,
or not in a training program. That’s 600 million young people without the ability, skills, or opportunity
to earn a living for themselves and contribute to their communities. And in just five years, the
largest generation in history will enter the workforce.
JA’s skill-building programs—for students as young as 5 and as old as 25—have never been more
important. We’re preparing an entire generation for the next disruption in the future of jobs by
teaching the skills they need to anticipate the changes ahead.
But will that be enough? JA is one of the largest and most impactful NGOs teaching employment
and entrepreneurship skills to young people, reaching more than ten million young people each
year, yet that represents only a fraction of the world’s youth population. How can we make a dent?
We’re using our position as a global leader in youth education to serve exponentially more students
by supporting innovation throughout our network, making investments in technology and human
capital, and executing partnerships with select best-of-breed organizations that benefit from our
unparalleled access to schools and students in over 100 countries. We’ll continue to use our position
as a market leader, respected partner, and distribution network to collaborate proactively with
volunteers, teachers, schools, governments, corporations, and other NGOs to catalyze and amplify
our collective success.
We can’t predict exactly what the next 100 years will bring. Just as our founders couldn’t have envisioned
the advent of smartphones and self-driving cars, we cannot predict the wonders that 2119 will
produce. But we do know this: JA’s impact and influence will be as important 100 years from now as
it is today. We’ll continue to help students build the skills they need for the jobs of the future while
developing the mindset for success that makes young people able to weather disappointments and
failures while remaining confident in their future success.
From building skill sets to changing mindsets—from global shapers to local makers—JA is ready to
train the next generations of young people for the future of employment and entrepreneurship.
JA Asia Pacific alumni attends
the JA Alumni Conference.
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JA Company Program
The JA Company Program has been offered continuously since 1919, the longest-running entrepreneurship
program in the world. Students not only learn create real companies with real products and
services, but also learn to overcome adversity and rise to the challenges they face. JA students also
show us time and again that they’re interested not only in improving their financial situations but also
in improving the world. The half-million students who participate in the JA Company Program every
year form a global force for good, as they create products and services that help achieve the UN Global
Goals for Sustainable Development.
Azad Ali escaped persecution in Kurdistan
at age 12 and was on the run for many
years. In Sweden, he started a new life and,
at age 17, formed a JA company that sells
the wooden lamps he designs. His company
has been a big success. But, perhaps
more importantly, Azad has found purpose
in his work, and encourages local youth
and other immigrants to turn their passion
into careers.
In Kenya, the JA Company Program helped Joseph
Ndinya expand his small, eco-friendly effort to
create fuel from recycled waste paper, and turn it
into a profitable business. Joseph and his
colleagues learned how to run the project as a
company with a clear business plan while they
also built a wide range of work-readiness skills.
This meant Joseph was able to turn his life around
. . . and even build a house for his homeless
mother. “If it were not for the JA training and
White Charcoal business, I would be jobless,”
Joseph says. “And I don’t know if I would be alive.”
Cindy Gomez lives in El Salvador, where no one in
her family had ever had the chance to attend
college. When she was in high school, Cindy started
a JA Company making chocolate—and it was
so successful that she used the profits to earn a
college degree.
But that was just the start of her journey. “My
dream is to take the business to the next level, to
create jobs for young people like me to pay for
their education. And help people who can’t get a
formal job.”
JA Company Program students prove time and
again that they turn their skills and knowledge
into success, regardless of the challenges.
“JA is celebrating 100 years of the
JA Company Program. JA
students not only get the
experience of being entrepreneurs,
but also develop critical
work skills that prepare them for
a future that requires an
entrepreneurial mindset.”
—Asheesh Advani, presented at
the World Economic Forum,
Davos, Switzerland
“JA fosters entrepreneurship,
which is itself positive for society.
It leads to self-sufficiency, creates
employment, and sparks
economic growth. ”
—Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi,
presented at The Vatican
International Conference,
Vatican City
We’re JA.
Creating opportunity for 100 years.
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JA Worldwide’s 1919 Society
recognizes all who have
contributed generously to JA
through April 1 of our
Centennial year. This
support allows JA to serve
over 10 million youth annually
across six continents and in
more than 100 countries.
Abbrecht Family Gift Fund
Accenture
ADP
AIG
Ainar Aijala, Jr.
The Alan and Carol Kelly Charitable Fund
Alghanim Industries
AmazonSmile
American Express Foundation
Akef Aqrabawi
Asheesh Advani and Helen Rosenfeld
Family Foundation
AT&T
Tony Audino
Avanade
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Carolyn Bassett
Maliz and James Beams
Bechtel Group Foundation
Sheikha Hanadi Nasser Bin Khaled Al
Thani
Elizabeth Bintliff
BKD Foundation
BlackRock
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Partha Bose
The Boston Foundation
Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila
Jose Brousset
CFA Institute
Doug Charles
Alice & Paul Chou
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Citi Foundation
CNA
Comcast Business
Brandie Conforti and Wayne Saville
David Corbin
David Cunningham
DataRobot
David C. Isenberg Family Fund
at the Rhode Island Foundation
Ralph de la Vega
Michel de Wolf
John Deere Foundation
Celia Deitz Valdespino
Delta Air Lines
Deluxe Corporation Foundation
Dentsu Aegis Network
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.
Tobias Dörpinghaus
Eastern Bank
Eaton Vance
Endurance International Group
EOS Foundation at Fidelity Charitable
Equifax
EY
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Phil Evans
Shiv Khemka
Carolyn Nevins
Sanford Harmony
Eversource
KidZania
Caitlin Noone
Santander Bank, N. A.
Facebook
Boris Kolev
Ben & Kimberly Olds
SAP International
FactSet Research Systems Inc.
Dean Kontul
Oliver Wyman
Erin Sawyer
Fayre Share Foundation
Jack E. Kosakowski
Arthur Papas
The Schawbel Group
FedEx Global Citizenship
KPMG LLP
Jonghwan Park
Bill Schawbel
Fidelity Investments
Vivian Lau
Michael Patrick
John Scheid
Fossil Group
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Andrew Schmahl
Camille Francis
Liberty Mutual Group
Garrison LLP
Shannon Schuyler
Franklin Templeton Investments
Desi Lopez Fafie
PayPal Giving Fund
Steve Sear
Edward and Catherine Galante
Luciano Macagno
Laura Pedrosa
John Sherman
Brad Geddes
Fiona Macaulay
People’s United Bank
Brian Sidorsky
Generix Group
Christi Maherry
PepsiCo Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Anubhav Goel
Making Cents International
Jonas & Sylvia Prising
Claudia Slacik
Dennis Gotta
ManpowerGroup
Prudential Foundation
Slalom
James Hemak
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Prudential PLC
Tere Stouffer
HP Inc.
Leo Martellotto
PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Joseph Tortora
HSBC Holdings plc
Erin Martin
Lari Raitavuo
Cynthia Tusan
IHG Foundation
MasterCard Worldwide
Sarah Rapp
USAID
International Association of Amusement
Andrew McKee
Red Sox Foundation
Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi
Parks and Attractions Foundation
David Meltzer
Karen Reddington
Dominique Virchaux
Caroline Jenner
MetLife Foundation
Glenn Ricciardelli
Margie Wang
JHM Charitable Foundation
Microsoft
Robert Half
Adam Warby
Johnson & Johnson
Carlos Motta
Steve Rodgers
Webster Bank, N. A.
JPMorgan Chase
The Muriel F. Siebert Foundation, Inc.
RSM US LLP
Richard Woods
Amini Kajunju
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation
SABIC
Brad Karp
Network for Good
Salesforce
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From 1975 to 2009, the Business Hall of Fame inducted 247 laureates. Some
were founders of successful companies; others were CEOs, publishers, or firsts
in their fields.
All served as role models for JA students.
As part of our Centennial celebration, we’re proud to include the Global
Business Hall of Fame in our Future Ready plans and look forward to welcoming
our first class of new laureates.
In the ten years since our last induction, both JA and the landscape of business
have evolved. So, too, will the Global Business Hall of Fame. Our inspiring
laureates will be more reflective of our global reach, of the makeup of JA
students, and of the business world today, including a committment to select
women as half of our laureates, as well as ensuring more representation from
countries around the world and from diverse industries.
The Global Business Hall of Fame will also focus on business as a global force for
good, prioritizing nominees who are working toward the Global Goals for
Sustainable Development, or SDGs.
1975–1979
William M. Allen, The Boeing Co.
Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Steel Co.
George Eastman, Eastman Kodak
Thomas A. Edison, Inventor
Henry Ford, Ford Motor Co.
A.P. Giannini, BankAmerica
J. Erik Jonsson, Texas Instruments
Royal Little, Textron Corp.
Cyrus H. McCormick, Inventor, Businessman
J. Pierpont Morgan, Financier
Monroe J. Rathbone, Standard Oil of NJ
J.D. Rockefeller Sr., Standard Oil Co. (NJ)
David Sarnoff, RCA/NBC
Alfred P. Sloan Jr, General Motors
Alexander T. Stewart, A.T. Stewart & Co.
J. Edgar Thomson, Pennsylvania Railroad
Theodore N. Vail, AT&T
George Washington, Statesman
Eli Whitney, Pioneer Industrialist
Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., Bechtel Group, Inc.
Walter E. Disney, The Walt Disney Co.
James J. Hill, Railroads
Albert D. Lasker, Lord & Thomas Advertising
Charles E. Merrill, Merrill Lynch
George S. Moore, Citibank
James C. Penney, J.C. Penney Co., Inc.
William C. Procter, Procter & Gamble Co.
Cyrus R. Smith, American Airlines
Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM Corp.
William Blackie, Caterpillar Tractor Co.
Benjamin Franklin, Inventor & Statesman
Florence N. Graham, Elizabeth Arden Inc.
Joyce C. Hall, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Henry J. Kaiser, Kaiser Enterprises
Henry R. Luce, Time Inc.
John J. McCloy, Chase Manhattan Bank
Robert W. Woodruff, The Coca-Cola Co.
Harry B. Cunningham, Kmart Corp.
Arthur V. Davis, ALCOA
Donald W. Douglas, McDonnell Douglas
Henry J. Heinz, H.J. Heinz Co.
Conrad N. Hilton, Hilton Hotels Corp.
Francis C. Lowell, Pioneer Industrialist
1980–1989, continued
Joseph I. Miller, Cummins Engine Co.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Weyerhaeuser Co
Georges F. Doriot, American R&D Corp.
Roswell Garst, Garst Seed Co.
Walter A. Haas, Levi Strauss & Co.
Ian K. MacGregor, AMAX
David M. Ogilvy, Ogilvy & Mather
John H. Patterson, NCR
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Railroads
Robert E. Wood, Sears, Roebuck & Co. .
1980–1989
William M. Batten, J.C. Penney Co., Inc.
Frederick C. Crawford, TRW, Inc.
Robert J. Kleberg Sr., King Ranch, Inc.
William A. Patterson, United Airlines
Charles Spaulding, North Carolina Mutual
DeWitt Wallace, Reader's Digest
Lila Acheson Wallace, Reader's Digest
George Westinghouse, Westinghouse Corp.
Joseph C. Wilson, Xerox Corp.
Willis H. Carrier, Carrier Corp.
Pierre S. duPont, DuPont
Edwin H. Land, Polaroid Corp.
Andrew Mellon, Financier
Donald T. Regan, Merrill Lynch
James W. Rouse, Rouse Co.
Owen D. Young, General Electric
Edward C. Johnson II, Fidelity Mutual Fund
Charles F. Kettering, General Motors Corp.
Malcolm P. McLean, Sea-Land Service, Inc.
Howard J. Morgens, Procter & Gamble Co.
Adolph S. Ochs, The New York Times
Jacob H. Schiff, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Charles M. Schwab, Bethlehem Steel
Kemmons Wilson, Holiday Inns, Inc.
Leo H. Baekeland, Union Carbide Corp.
Olive A. Beech, Beech Aircraft Corp.
John Deere, Deere & Co.
Edward H. Harriman, Union Pacific RR
Ray A. Kroc, McDonald's Corp.
Abe Plough, Schering-Plough Corp.
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1980–1989, continued
William E. Boeing, The Boeing Co.
Bernard Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal
Forrest E. Mars, Mars, Inc.
William S. Paley, CBS, Inc.
Dr. Simon Ramo, TRW/Bunker Ramo
John E. Swearingen, Standard Oil Co.
Arnold O. Beckman, SmithKline Beckman
Henry M. Flagler, Florida Developer
Reginald H. Jones, General Electric Co.
Alden J. Laborde, Odeco/Tidewater, Inc.
William F. Laporte, American Home Products
George J. Mecherle, State Farm Insurance
Robert O. Anderson, ARCO
Edward E. Carlson, United Airlines, Inc.
Walter P. Chrysler, Chrysler Corp
Cyrus W. Field, Transatlantic Cable
Leonard H. Goldenson, Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
Rene C. McPherson, Dana Corp.
Trammell Crow, Trammel Crow Co.
Harvey S. Firestone, Firestone Tire & Rubber
George S. Halas, Chicago Bears
Donald M. Kendall, PepsiCo, Inc.
Jack C. Massey, HCA & KFC
Igor Sikorsky, Sikorsky Aircraft
King C. Gillette, Gillette Co.
Benjamin Graham, Economist/GEICO
Milton S. Hershey, Hershey Foods
William R. Hewlett, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Estée Lauder, Estée Lauder, Inc.
David Packard, Hewlett-Packard Co.
H. Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems
Marvin Bower, McKinsey & Co.
W.K. Kellogg, Kellogg Co.
S. I. Newhouse, Newhouse Publishing
Robert N. Noyce, Intel/Sematech
Wallace R. Persons, Emerson
T.A. Wilson, The Boeing Co.
1990–1999
Charles L. Brown, AT&T
James E. Burke, Johnson & Johnson
Liz Claiborne, Liz Claiborne, Inc.
1990–1999, continued
Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Co.
Louis B. Mayer, MGM/UA
Arthur Ortenberg, Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Juan T. Trippe, Pan American World Airways
Thomas J. Watson Sr. , IBM Corp.
James E. Casey, United Parcel Service
John T. Dorrance, Campbell Soup Co.
Robert W. Galvin, Motorola, Inc.
Dee Ward Hock, VISA U.S.A., Inc.
Peter Lynch, Fidelity Magellan Fund
Robert Mondavi, Robert Mondavi Winery
Max DePree, Herman Miller, Inc.
Steven P. Jobs, Apple Computer
William McGowan, MCI
Julius Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Richard W. Sears, Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Madam C.J. Walker, Walker Mfg. Co.
Sam M. Walton, Wal-Mart
Leon L. Bean, L.L. Bean, Inc.
Katharine Graham, The Washington Post
Amory Houghton, Corning Glass Works
Lee Iacocca, Chrysler Corp.
Samuel C. Johnson, S.C. Johnson & Sons, Inc.
Thomas S. Murphy, Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
Walter H. Annenberg, Triangle Publications
W. Edwards Deming, Total Quality Management
Stanley C. Gault, Rubbermaid/Goodyear Tire
Rebecca Lukens, Lukens Steel Inc.
Robert F. McDermott, USAA
Levi Strauss, Levi Strauss & Co.
Philip Caldwell, Ford Motor Co.
Alexander Hamilton, Bank of NY & NY Post
Frederick L. Maytag, Maytag Corp.
William L. McKnight, 3M
Raymond Noorda, Novell Inc.
P. Roy Vagelos, Merck & Co
Frank W. Woolworth, F.W. Woolworth Co.
Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay Corp.
Peter F. Drucker, Management Professor & Author
William Durant, General Motors Corp.
Henry Ford II, Ford Motor Co.
Alonzo Herndon, Atlanta Life Insurance Co.
Howard Hughes, Inventor, Aviator, Movie Producer
1990–1999, continued
John Smale, Procter & Gamble Co./ Gen. Motors
John Templeton, Templeton Growth Fund
Bernard M. Baruch, Industrialist & Economist
Warren E. Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
Ruth Handler, Mattel, Inc.
John H. Johnson, Johnson Publishing Co.
Carl H. Lindner Jr., American Financial Group, Inc.
John F. Welch Jr., General Electric Co.
Richard M. DeVos, Amway Corp.
Roberto C. Goizueta, The Coca-Cola Co.
Berry Gordy Jr., Motown Records
Andrew S. Grove, Intel Corp.
J. Willard Marriott Sr., Marriott Corp.
Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corp.
Jay Van Andel, Amway Corp.
Marriner S. Eccles, Federal Reserve Board
Paul Henson, Sprint Corp.
Martha Rivers Ingram, Ingram Industries, Inc.
John D. Nichols, Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Edmund T. Pratt Jr., Pfizer Inc
Dave Thomas, Wendy’s International, Inc.
2000–2009
John H. Bryan, Sara Lee Corp.
Lodwrick M. Cook, Global Crossing Ltd.
Charles F. Knight, Emerson
John H. McConnell, Worthington Industries, Inc.
Roger Milliken, Milliken & Co
Harland Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken
Edgar S. Woolard Jr., DuPont
William Wrigley Jr., Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
Glen W. Bell, Taco Bell Corp.
Henry W. Bloch, H&R Block, Inc.
Mike Curb, Curb Records
David Hall McConnell, Avon Products Inc.
Maggie Lena Walker, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank
Philip F. Anschutz, The Anschutz Corp.
Kenneth I. Chenault, American Express Corp.
J.B. Fuqua, The Fuqua Companies
Spencer Penrose, Miner owner, Hotelier
Richard F. Teerlink, Harley-Davidson, Inc.
Ely Reeves Callaway, Jr. , Callaway Golf Co.
2000–2009, continued
Curtis L. Carlson, Carlson Companies
S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A, Inc.
Genevieve Gore, Gore & Associates, Inc.
Wilbert Gore, W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Harry Jack Gray, United Technologies Corp.
Don Keough, The Coca-Cola Co.
Hans W. Becherer, Deere & Co.
Edward Donley, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Herb D. Kelleher, Southwest Airlines Co.
Frank Shrontz, The Boeing Co.
Robert B. Wegman, Wegmans Food Markets
Joseph Wharton, Wharton School of Business
Gertrude Boyle, Columbia Sportswear Co.
August A. Busch Jr. , Anheuser-Busch Co.,
August A. Busch III, Anheuser-Busch Co.
Charles M. Cawley, MBNA America Corp.
Raymond G. Chambers, Amelior Foundation
Arthur M. Blank, The Home Depot, Inc.
Maxine Clark, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.
Wayne Huizenga, Huizenga Holdings
Herbert V. Kohler Jr., Kohler Co.
Bernard Marcus, The Home Depot, Inc.
Robert A. Swanson, Genentech, Inc.
Harold Boeschenstein, Owens-Corning Fliberglas
Earl G. Graves Sr., Black Enterprise Magazine
Hugh L. McColl Jr., Bank of America
John H. Schnatter, Papa John’s International, Inc.
Ted Turner, Turner Enterprises
William H.G. France, NASCAR
Thomas F. Frist Jr., M.D., HCA
Robert L. Johnson, Black Entertainment Television
Allen H. Neuharth, USA Today
John E. Pepper Jr., The Procter & Gamble Company
Meg Whitman, eBay Inc.
Bob Basham, Outback Steakhouse
Steve Case, America Online, Inc.
Tim Gannon, Outback Steakhouse
George W. Jenkins, Publix Super Markets
Muriel Siebert, Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.
Chris Sullivan, Outback Steakhouse
Edward E. Whitacre Jr., AT&T, Inc.
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Board Chairs
Regional Board Chairs
1919–1920 Theodore Vail, President, AT&T
1920–1942 Horace Moses, President, Strathmore Paper Company
1942–1944 Charles R. Hook, President, ARMCO Steel
1944–1949 Robert L. Lund, Executive Vice President, Lambert Pharmaceutical
1949–1952 Earl O. Shreve, Vice President, General Electric Company
1952–1956 Larry C. Hart, Vice President, Johns-Manville Company
1956–1958 T.G. Shirreffs, Director/Public Relations, Standard Oil
1958–1962 Edwin H. Mosler, Jr., Chairman & President, Mosler Safes
1962–1965 S. Bayard Colgate, Chairman, Colgate-Palmolive
1966–1968 McClain Smith, Group Vice President, IBM
1969–1970 H. Bruce Palmer, President, The Conference Board
1970–1971 John D. deButts, Chairman & CEO, AT&T
1971–1973 William Elmer, Chairman & CEO, Texas Gas Corporation
1973–1975 Richard A. Jay, Vice Chairman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber
1975–1977 Richard L. Terrell, Vice Chairman, General Motors
1977–1979 Frank T. Cary, Chairman & CEO, IBM
1979–1981 David T. Kearns, President & CEO, Xerox
1981–1983 Dennis R. Hendrix, Chairman & CEO, Texas Gas Corporation
1983–1985 John A. Young, President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard
1985–1987 Hicks B. Waldron, Chairman & CEO, Avon Products Inc.
1987–1989 Lodwrick M. Cook, Chairman & CEO, ARCO
1989–1990 Thomas H. Cruickshank, Chairman & CEO, Halliburton Company
1990–1991 C.J. “Pete” Silas, Chairman & CEO, Phillips Petroleum Company
1991–1993 James B. Hayes, Publisher, FORTUNE
1993–1995 L.D. DeSimone, Chairman & CEO, 3M
1995–1997 John L. Clendenin, Chairman & CEO, Bell South Corporation
1997–1999 Robert T. Herres, Chairman & CEO, USAA
1999–2001 Jerome T. Loeb, Chairman, The May Department Store Company
2001–2003 William M. Freeman, President, Public Communications Group at Verizon Communications
2003–2006 Sam DiPiazza, CEO, PwC; Juan Cintron, President, Consultores Internacionales (co-chairs)
2007–2011 Ainar D. Aijala, Vice Chairman & Deputy CEO, Deloitte Consulting LLP
2011–2015 Ralph de la Vega, President & CEO, AT&T Mobility
2015–present Francesco Vanni d'Archirafi, Chief Executive Officer, Citi Holdings
2008–2010 James E. Rutrough, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
2010–2012 Jonas Prising, ManpowerGroup
2012–2014 Larry Leva, KPMG
2014–2016 Catherine S. Brune, Allstate Insurance
2016–2018 Julie Monaco, Citi
2018–present Richard Woods, Capital One
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JA USA
JA Europe
2002–2006 Jørgen M. Clausen, Danfoss
2006–2011 Michael Bray, Grimaldi Studio Legale
2011–2014 Francesco Vanni d'Archirafi, Citi Holdings
2014–2018 Jo Deblaere, Accenture
2018–present Adam Warby, Avanade
JA Americas
2010–2012 Edmundo Vallejo, GE
2012–2014 Richard Hartzell, MasterCard
2014–2016 Maria Eugenia Avila, HSBC
2016–present Jose Brousset, Caterpillar
INJAZ Al-Arab | JA MENA
2007–2008 Omar Alghanim, Alghanim Industries
2008–2017 Sheikh Khaled ben Zayed Al Nehayan, Bin Zayed Group
2017–present Sheikha Hanadi bint Nasser bin Khaled Al Thani, Amwal & NBK
JA Asia Pacific
2011–2018 Steve Wong, Exxon Mobil
2018–present Karen Reddington, FedEx
JA Africa
2012–2013 Desi Lopez Fafie
2014–2015 Peter Gbedema, Jumo.World
2015–2015 Brian Lang, MasterCard Canada
2015–2019
Jean Chawapiwa, Solutions 4 Africa

JA USA/JA Worldwide
Chief Staff Officers/CEOs
1919–1929
1929–1942
1942–1942
1942–1950
1950–1952
1952–1955
1955–1960
1962–1964
1965–1970
1970–1982
1982–1994
1994–1995
1994–1996
1995–2000
1996–2000
2001–2006
2000–2004
2007–2007
2007–present
2008–2015
2015–present
O.H. Benson
John St. Clair Mendenhall
Marion L. Ober, George C. Hager, Edward M. Seay (interim)
George Tamblyn
Romeo Collin
John Haein
Larry Hart
John Davis Lodge
Donald J. Hardenbrook
W.R. (Dick) Maxwell
Karl Flemke
Kathryn J. Whitmire (JA USA)
James Parkel (JA International)
James B. Hayes (JA USA)
Samuel Taylor (JA International)
David S. Chernow (JA USA/JA Worldwide)
Paul Ostergaard (JA International)
Gerry Czarnecki (JA Worldwide, interim)
Jack Kosakowski (JA USA)
Sean C. Rush (JA Worldwide)
Asheesh Advani (JA Worldwide)
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