Albert J. Dunlap (1937–2019)

Albert John Dunlap was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on July 26, 1937. After graduating from the United States Military Academy, he trained as a paratrooper and then served as an officer at a nuclear missile facility. He began his business career in Kimberly Clark's management training program. He toon meer became an executive that turned around troubled companies by laying off workers and closing factories. His corporate career ended in June 1998 and involved an accounting scandal concerning Sunbeam Corporation. His autobiography, Mean Business: How I Saved Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great written with Bob Andelman, was published in 1996. He died from prostate cancer on January 25, 2019 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder