Kim Clark President of BYU- Idaho Former dean, Harvard Business School Kim B. Clark, the dean of the Harvard Business School, was named the new president of Brigham Young University-Idaho, Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley announced Monday. Clark, 56, will...
Richard Lyman Bushman Richard Lyman Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University , is the author of many books on early American cultural and religious history. Bushman’s most notable work, From Puritan to Yankee: Character...
Alison Davis-Blake Alison Davis-Blake was the first female dean of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She is also the Stephen M. Ross Professor of Business. She was also the first female dean of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of...
James LeVoy Sorenson Mr. Sorenson, whose wealth was estimated to be $4.5 billion by Forbes magazine, when he was 86 years old. He was listed as the 68th-richest American in September 2007. He was an entrepreneur, real estate magnate and inventor of numerous medical...
Robert B. Ingebretsen In 1999, he received an Academy Award for his pioneering work in digital sound. Ingebretsen and his mentor, Thomas Stockham, invented technology that translated analog sound into a digital format — a discovery that eventually led to the...
Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971) Inventor of Television “I know that I have never invented anything. I have been a medium by which these things were given to the culture as fast as culture could earn them. I give the credit to God.” He developed and invented electronic...
