The Global Business Hall of Fame, powered by
JA Worldwide, was established by
Junior Achievement
JA (Junior Achievement) Worldwide is a global non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane. JA works with local businesses, schools, and organizations to deliver experiential learning ...
in 1975 as the U.S. Business Hall of Fame,
the result of an idea by Willard F. Rockwell, Jr. (former chairman and CEO of
Rockwell International
Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products. R ...
) and
Alan Hilburg (assisting W. F. Rockwell as a representative of
Junior Achievement
JA (Junior Achievement) Worldwide is a global non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane. JA works with local businesses, schools, and organizations to deliver experiential learning ...
). Rockwell and Hilburg approached Pat Lenahan and Charles Whittingham (publisher and associate publisher of ''
Fortune'' magazine) with the idea. Together they engaged the Board of Editors of ''Fortune'' to independently select the honorees. The originating idea was to align the principles of Junior Achievement with the lives of the inductees to promote examples of what it considers exemplary business leadership.
The U.S. Business Hall of Fame did not induct any new laureates from 2009 to 2019, when it was resurrected by the global Junior Achievement organization, JA Worldwide, and renamed the Global Business Hall of Fame, which seeks to be more global and more gender-balanced in its laureates going forward, in order to serve as a role model for young entrepreneurs. The Global Business Hall of Fame nomination process has been designed, with support from
PwC, to engage diverse stakeholders from around the world and to ensure protocols are followed in the selection of laureates. Nominees are vetted throughout the process by two committees and final voting jury.
Location
The Business Hall of Fame, previously exhibited at the
Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois, US.,
Inductees
More than 270 laureates, made up of accomplished global businesspeople and entrepreneurs, have been inducted into the Global Business Hall of Fame, with four new laureates added in 2020.
References
External links
Global Business Hall of Fame
webpage (powered by JA Worldwide)
Awards established in 1975
Businesspeople halls of fame
Junior Achievement
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