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6). His first book, "The End of the Economic Man" was published in 1939.

 a) Peter Drucker
 b) F.W. Taylor
 c) Michael Porter
 d) Philip Crosby

Ans: Drucker is considered as the guru among all management gurus.

7). At 16, he went to work as an engineer for James Flower & Co. in Detroit.

 a) Alfred Sloan
 b) Walter Chrysler
 c) Henry Ford
 d) Lee Iacocca

Ans: Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Co.

8). In 1976, she took a job with WJZ-TV as news co-anchor.

 a) Whoopi Goldberg
 b) Oprah Winfrey
 c) Anita Roddick
 d) Janet Jackson

Ans: Oprah Winfrey acclaimed talk show host of The Oprah Winfrey Show

9). Though he was the heir to his family's rice wine brewing business, he decided to pursue his interest in consumer electronics and was the co-founder of the Tokyo Tshushin Kyogu company.

 a) Eiji Toyoda
 b) Akiro Kurusawa
 c) Taichi Ohno
 d) Akio Morita

Ans: Akio Morita of Sony Corporation

10). At school, he used to write computer programs for the school library to print out catalogue cards.

 a) Scott McNealy
 b) Pierre Omidyar
 c) Jay Walker
 d) Sergey Brin

Ans: Pierre Omidyar of eBay
 
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