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social science subjects > business and management > leadership (business) > key people in leadership > John D. Rockefeller
social science subjects > business and management > leadership (business) > leadership (arts) > John D. Rockefeller
social science subjects > business and management > leadership (business) > leadership (science and technology) > John D. Rockefeller

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John D. Rockefeller  

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  • JOHN D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Trust, was the archetypal robber baron of late 19th-century America. The label signalled public provaldisap of the business methods and attitudes of Rockefeller and fellow industrialists and financiers such as Andrew Carnegie, William Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and J. Pierpont Morgan. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime; Rockefeller, John D.]

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