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Andrew Carnegie

1835 – 1919

Built modern steel and then invented large-scale philanthropy.

United States·Business

Frederick Winslow Taylor

1856 – 1915

Scientific management — the origin of every productivity metric and its discontents.

United States·Business · Engineering

Henry Ford

1863 – 1947

The moving assembly line and the five-dollar day created mass consumer industry.

United States·Business · Engineering

Madam C. J. Walker

1867 – 1919

Built a national cosmetics company and became America's first self-made Black woman millionaire.

United States·Business

W. Edwards Deming

1900 – 1993

Statistical quality control rebuilt Japanese manufacturing and then global industry.

United States·Business · Statistics

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