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Bowes made up for his lack of formal education with savvy salesmanship
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Switzerland
Honeywell International
Ranked 115 in the 2023 Fortune 500
Albert Butz invented the thermostat, which created a whole new industry.
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Scotland
TIAA and United States Steel
Ranked 412 and 186 in the 2023 Fortune 500
Andrew Carnegie’s steel company produced more metal than all of Great Britain in 1900.
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Canada
International Paper
Ranked 184 the 2023 Fortune 500
Under Hugh Chisholm’s leadership, International Paper controlled 60 percent of the American newsprint market.
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France
DuPont de Nemours
Ranked 250 in the 2023 Fortune 500
DuPont was an early “transnational” business relying on knowledge, equipment and capital raised in France.
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Helen Greiner’s love of robots started with R2D2 in Star Wars.
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Scotland
Emerson
Ranked 206 in the 2023 Fortune 500
Emerson sold the first electric fans in America, invented by two orphans from Scotland.
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Scotland
PPG Industries
Ranked 232 in the 2023 Fortune 500
John Pitcairn Jr. dropped out of school at age 14 and went on to create an industrial giant, PPG Industries.
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England
General Electric
Ranked 52 in the 2023 Fortune 500
Elihu Thomson was a multifaceted scientist, inventor and engineer who held nearly 700 patents.
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Germany
Weyerhaeuser
Ranked 385 in the 2023 Fortune 500
The New York Times credited Weyerhäuser’s incredible success to “German regularity, caution, thrift, industry and perseverance.”