Photo Section

Portrait of Robert Owen, circa 1799, when he and his partners purchased the New Lanark mills from Robert Dale, and Owen married Dale’s daughter, Caroline. (Public domain)

A view of New Lanark in 1818, with cotton mill buildings to the right and Owen’s school at the front left. (Public domain)

J. C. Penney’s Golden Rule Store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in the early twentieth century. (Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University)

James Cash Penney in his later years after he had lost influence in the company he founded. (Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University)

Soap magnate William Hasketh Lever, aka “Lord Leverhulme.” (Courtesy of Unilever from originals in Unilever’s Collection, Unilever Art, Archives and Records Management, Port Sunlight)

Port Sunlight, home of Lever Bros.’ soap works and model village. (Courtesy of Unilever from originals in Unilever’s Collection, Unilever Art, Archives and Records Management, Port Sunlight)

Chocolate bar baron Milton Hershey with his wife, Catherine “Kitty” Sweeney, dressed for their favorite pastime, world travel. (Courtesy of Hershey Community Archives, Hershey, Pennsylvania)

James Finney Lincoln, head of the Lincoln Electric Company and creator of America’s longest-running industrial success story. (Courtesy of Lincoln Electric, Cleveland, Ohio)

John Spedan Lewis in his customary Edwardian collar—a business leader nowhere near as rigid as he appeared. (Courtesy of the John Lewis Partnership)

Michael Marks, the immigrant peddler who founded Britain’s Marks & Spencer. (Courtesy of Marks & Spencer company archives)

Marcus (later, Baron) Sieff—grandson and, oddly, also grandnephew of Michael Marks—the last member of his family to lead Marks & Spencer. (Courtesy of Marks & Spencer company archives)

Robert Wood Johnson—“the General” who authored Johnson & Johnson’s influential credo. (Courtesy of Johnson & Johnson Archives)

James Burke, the chief executive who led J&J successfully through the Tylenol crisis. (Courtesy of Johnson & Johnson Archives)

Levi Strauss, the denim merchant who, contrary to popular belief, did not sew the first pair of jeans that would come to be known as Levi’s. (Courtesy of Levi Strauss & Co. Archives)

Strauss family descendants Walter Haas Jr. (center) and Walter Haas Sr. (right), ever ready to accommodate all their customers, even their biggest. [Man on the left unidentified.] (Courtesy of Levi Strauss & Co. Archives)

Herman Miller’s avuncular chief executive Max De Pree, who practiced leadership “as an art.” (Courtesy of Herman Miller Archives)

The Body Shop’s environmentalist founder Anita Roddick, with friends in the Amazon. (Courtesy of photographer Christine Burrill)