Title: President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores
Born: October 17,1966, Jonesboro, Arkansas
Education: BS in accounting, University of Arkansas; MBA, University of Tulsa
Early Marker: President and CEO, Sam's Club
Big Idea: Positioning world's largest retailer to adapt to expanding consumer markets in emerging economist and to the global growth of commerce.
Wave of the Future: E-commerce, emerging-markets consumers, U.S.-China commercial competition
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