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Margaret C. "Meg" Whitman, former President and CEO of famous online marketplace,eBay, was born and raised in Long Island, New York. She is a BS... Economics graduate from Princeton University and she received her MBA at Harvard Business School. She is considered by Forbes magazine as one of "The 100 Most Powerful Women".
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Carol Meyrowitz is the president, Chief Executive Officer, and director of TJX Companies, the leading off-price retailer in the United States.... Meyrowitz joined TJX Companies in 1983. In 2001, she became Executive Vice President of the company, as well as the President of Marmaxx, the largest division of the company. She rose to Senior Executive Vice President in March 2004, which she maintained until January 2005. In January 2005, she left her positions and became an advisor for TJX and Berkshire Partners. Her plan was to leave the advisory role in September of that year to "pursue new opportunities and challenges" outside of TJX. However, Meyrowitz became president on October 17, 2005; additionally, she became a member of the board of directors on September 7, 2006. She was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the company on January 28, 2007, replacing acting CEO Bernard Cammarata, the Chairman of the Board for TJX. In 2009, Forbes ranked her 24th in their list of the 100 Most Powerful Women. She ranked 26th on CNN's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2006.
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Arthur M. Blank is an American businessman and a co-founder of The Home Depot. Today he is known for his philanthropy and his ownership of the... Atlanta Falcons in the National Football League. Arthur Blank was born to a Jewish family, in Flushing, New York, with his father, Max, his mother, Molly, and his older brother, Michael. Blank graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and went on to attend Babson College, where he graduated in 3 years in 1963 with a B.S. degree in Business Administration and accounting. He also received an honorary degree from Furman University, where the Falcons held training camp until 2005 After graduating from Babson College, Blank was hired by Arthur Young and Company, where he was a senior accountant. He later joined the Daylin Corporation, where he rose to become president of Elliott's Drug Stores/Stripe Discount Stores, a division of Daylin. When Daylin decided to sell off that division, Blank moved to another division, Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers.
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