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Business and Tech Leaders
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Business and tech leaders covers prominent founders, chief executives, and economists who shaped global industries. This section features questions on leaders of major technology corporations and financial institutions. It is a highly scoring topic in general awareness.
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Business and Tech Leaders Questions
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Vinod Khosla
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Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Bill Joy
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Vinod Dahm
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Option (1) and (2)
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Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 by Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Bill Joy. They were students at Stanford University. The company was a pioneer in workstation computers and created the Java programming language.
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Business @ The Speed of Thought
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The Google Story
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Net and Internet
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The World is Flat
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None of these
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'Business @ the Speed of Thought' is a book written by Bill Gates, published in 1999. In it, he discusses how digital infrastructure and information networks can provide a competitive edge to businesses.
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Mike Fennell
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Michael George Paul
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Mike Hooper
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Mike Russell
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He is President of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) for 2010
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Pal Schmitt
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Julian Assange
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Dilma Rousseff
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David Cameron
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He founded the Wikileaks website in January 2007.
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Rupert Murdoch
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Marc Faber
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Wilbur Ross
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Warren Buffet
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Mr. Daniel Kahneman
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Robert F. Engle
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Clive W.J. Granger
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Both (b) and (c)
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The 2003 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was shared by Robert F. Engle and Clive W.J. Granger. They were recognized for their methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility and common trends.
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Taiko Hakia
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Ratan Tata
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Azim Premji
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Lee Jun Wook
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Ratan Tata, the former chairman of the Tata Group, was named the Asian Businessman of the Year by Forbes in 2004. This award recognized his leadership in transforming the Tata Group into a global powerhouse through strategic acquisitions and modernization. His vision for the group's international expansion was a key factor in this recognition.
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Hutchison
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Thomson
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Ferrari
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McDonalds
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Charlie Bell was an Australian executive who served as the CEO of McDonald's Corporation in 2004. He was the first non-American to lead the company, having started his career there as a part-time crew member at age 15. He succeeded Jim Cantalupo but unfortunately had to resign shortly after due to health issues.
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Daewoo Motors
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Sony Corp
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Hutchison Whampoa
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Nvidia
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Li Ka-Shing is a prominent Hong Kong businessman who served as the chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Limited. Under his leadership, the company became a global conglomerate with major interests in ports, telecommunications (including the '3' network), and retail. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential business figures in Asia.
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Capital one
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Country Wide Financial
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Progressive Insurance
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GE Capital
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Deepak Puri, a recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, was a senior IT professional at Progressive Insurance. The MVP award recognizes exceptional community leadership and technical expertise.
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Klaus Schwab
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William J. Clinton
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Amartya Sen and Mehboob Haq
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All of these
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) was founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, a German engineer and economist. It is best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together global leaders.
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Pt Ravi Shankar
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Bhimsen Joshi
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Madonna
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Jackson founded the Heal the World Foundation in 1992 as a charitable organization to help children across the globe. The foundation was named after his hit single of the same name, which advocated for global unity and care for the environment. It focused on providing medicine, food, and education to underprivileged youth.
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Dalai Lama
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Tiger Woods
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Hillary Clinton
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Andrew Miller
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"Ethics for the New Millennium" was written by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. In the book, he proposes a system of ethics based on universal human values like compassion and patience rather than religious doctrine. It was published in 1999 to address the moral challenges of the upcoming century.
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Larry Page
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Bill Gates
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Michel Parry
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David Filo
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the co-founders of Google.
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Carol Bartz
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Sergey Brin
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Missi Khan
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Jerry Yang
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Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google, alongside Larry Page.