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Arthur M. Blank
Arthur M. Blank is owner & chairman of the Atlanta Falcons. Now in his 12th season, Blank has distinguished himself as one of the most innovative and progressive owners in all of professional sports, allowing him to attract and retain some of most talented executives, coaches, and players in the NFL.
Blank is widely known in the business community for his success in building the world’s largest home improvement retailer. He co-founded The Home Depot in 1978 with Bernie Marcus and retired from the company as co-chairman in 2001.
In 2003, for the second time in three years—and the only time in the publication’s 30-year history—Blank was named Georgia’s Most Respected CEO by Georgia Trend magazine, and in 2002 he was inducted into Georgia State University’s Business Hall of Fame. Among other previous honors, his alma mater Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, inducted Blank into its Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs in 1995 and conferred on him an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1998. Also in 1998, The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepre
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Arthur Blank
A successful businessman and community leader in Atlanta, Arthur Blank is a cofounder of the Home Depot corporation and the owner of two professional sports teams, the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC. He is also well known for his philanthropy, and his Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation has donated millions of dollars to community causes since 1995.
Arthur M. Blank was born in the Queens borough of New York City in 1942 to Molly and Max Blank. In 1963 Blank earned a business degree from Babson College in Massachusetts. After working for a few years at an accounting firm, he went to work for his father’s small pharmaceutical company. The family business was bought in 1968 by Daylin, the parent company of a drugstore chain, and Blank stayed on with the new company. Daylin sent him to Griffin to be the controller for their discount drugstore chain, and in 1972 he became president and chief executive officer. Two years later he was promoted to controller of Handy Dan, the largest subsidiary of Daylin, and he relocated to Los Angeles, California.
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Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
A renowned entrepreneur as co-founder of The Home Depot, Arthur M. Blank is now recognized for his values-based Blank Family of Businesses and as one of America’s leading philanthropists. A native of Queens, N.Y. and a Babson College business school graduate, Blank’s philosophy of creating value for companies, customers and communities has led him to be distinguished by Forbes as one of the World’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds and as one of America’s Top 50 Givers. He was Sports Business Journal’sSports Executive of the Year in 2018.
Blank believes that a “good company” produces both profit and purpose towards a better world – an idea he developed with his friend Bernie Marcus when they started The Home Depot in 1978 and opened the first two stores in Atlanta. As game-changing business icons, their vision transformed America into a country of empowered do-it-yourselfers while building The Home Depot into the world’s largest home improvement retailer and one of the nation’s most profitable and socially responsible compan
Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
A renowned entrepreneur as co-founder of The Home Depot, Arthur M. Blank is now recognized for his values-based Blank Family of Businesses and as one of America’s leading philanthropists. A native of Queens, N.Y. and a Babson College business school graduate, Blank’s philosophy of creating value for companies, customers and communities has led him to be distinguished by Forbes as one of the World’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds and as one of America’s Top 50 Givers. He was Sports Business Journal’sSports Executive of the Year in 2018.
Blank believes that a “good company” produces both profit and purpose towards a better world – an idea he developed with his friend Bernie Marcus when they started The Home Depot in 1978 and opened the first two stores in Atlanta. As game-changing business icons, their vision transformed America into a country of empowered do-it-yourselfers while building The Home Depot into the world’s largest home improvement retailer and one of the nation’s most profitable and socially responsible compan
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