Business Quiz round 2

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IDENTIFY THE PERSONALITIES AND LOGOS

He tried a variety of jobs before settling on

being a milkshake-mixer salesman ?

Hint 1) A visit to a small restaurant in San

Bernardino, California, inspired him to

establish a fast food chain that later became

world-famous.

Hint 2) Quality, Service, Cleanliness, and

At the age of 13, he formed the Lakeside Programmers Group with some school friends.

Hint 1) In 1977, he dropped out of Harvard to set up a small computer software company with his

friend.

Hint 2) His charitable foundation had donated

In 1974, he took a job with Atari.

Hint 1) In 1985, he was removed from the computer company he had co-founded. Hint 2) He returned to the company in 1998 and successfully turned it around with focus on digital music players and online music store.

At age of 27, he borrowed US$ 20,000 from his father-in-law and bought his first store in Newport, Arkansas. Hints: Hint 1) He got a pilot license in 1953 and used to fly from one store to another to oversee the operations of his growing chain of retail stores. Hint 2) In 1991, his company became the

His first book, The End of the Economic Man was published in 1939. Hint 1) He spent over 18 months interviewing senior management at General Motors which resulted in the publication of his bestselling book, The Concept of the Corporation in 1946. Hint 2) 3) In 1994, he was appointed as Godkin Lecturer at Harvard University.

At 16, he went to work as an engineer for James Flower & Co. in Detroit. Hint 1) His first prototype automobile called the Quadricycle was built in his garden shed. Hint 2) He is widely credited to have revolutionized the automobile manufacturing industry with introduction of the massproduction assembly line system.

Though he was the heir to his family's rice wine brewing business, he decided to pursue his interest in consumer electronics and was the cofounder of the Tokyo Tshushin Kyogu company.
Hint 1) His company's first product was a specialized rice cooker, later followed by tape recorders and transistor radios.

At school, he used to write computer programs for the school library to print out catalogue cards. Hint 1) He co-founded a software company called Ink Development Corporation, which was later renamed as eShop. This company was bought by Microsoft in 1996. Hint 2) He set up an online auction website as a hobby, having got the idea during a conversation with his fiance, who was an avid collector of Pez Dispensers.

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

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