Name the Greatest Business Partnerships
Asked by Forbes.com to name his top five historical partnerships, Harvard Business School Dean Jay Light produced this unlikely list:
- Marie and Pierre Curie
- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
- Larry Bird, Robert Parish and Kevin McHale
- Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard
- James D. Watson and Francis Crick
"Lewis and Clark bonded over a shared love for the outdoors, but they had markedly different personalities. Lewis was a moody, introverted intellectual with a deep knowledge of cartography and natural science. Clark was the gregarious extrovert with a natural flair for leadership. Lewis needed Clark to keep up the esprit de corps through three arduous years while he focused on scientific discovery. Clark simply needed a job."Dear readers, let's create our own lists, but confine your nominations to business leaders. No politicos, sports stars or musicians, please.
Here's my nomination: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. At the dawn of the personal computer generation, Wozniak had the technical genius and Jobs had the marketing instincts to transform early attempts at a personal computer such as the Altair, which appealed to hobbyists, into an eventually mainstream consumer electronics device.
Who would you nominate to the Business Partnership Hall of Fame?