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Bowes made up for his lack of formal education with savvy salesmanship
Switzerland
Honeywell International
Ranked 94 in the 2021 Fortune 500

Albert Butz invented the thermostat, which created a whole new industry.
Scotland
TIAA and United States Steel
Ranked 79 and 310 in the 2021 Fortune 500

Andrew Carnegie’s steel company produced more metal than all of Great Britain in 1900.
Canada
International Paper and Veritiv
Ranked 141 and 439 in the 2021 Fortune 500

Under Hugh Chisholm’s leadership, International Paper controlled 60 percent of the American newsprint market.
France
DuPont de Nemours
Ranked 144 in the 2021 Fortune 500

DuPont was an early “transnational” business relying on knowledge, equipment and capital raised in France.

Helen Greiner’s love of robots started with R2D2 in Star Wars.
Scotland
Emerson
Ranked 181 in the 2021 Fortune 500

Emerson sold the first electric fans in America, invented by two orphans from Scotland.
Scotland
PPG Industries
Ranked 220 in the 2021 Fortune 500

John Pitcairn Jr. dropped out of school at age 14 and went on to create an industrial giant, PPG Industries.
England
General Electric
Ranked 38 in the 2021 Fortune 500

Elihu Thomson was a multifaceted scientist, inventor and engineer who held nearly 700 patents.
Germany
Weyerhaeuser
Ranked 387 in the 2021 Fortune 500

The New York Times credited Weyerhäuser’s incredible success to “German regularity, caution, thrift, industry and perseverance.”