The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century are American?

Apparently 7000 executives surveyed by Harvard Business School's Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria for their book, In Their Time think that the top 50 greatest business leaders of the 20th century are American entrepreneurs who built their companies from scratch. The list doesn't have any surprises, with the founders of some of the best known companies in the world there, including only one woman: Estee Lauder.

But what is saddening is that this is another example of people with blinders on - I know these companies have multi-billion dollar market capitalizations and probably have high brand recall among Americans, but there are no Asians on that list! So are these executives saying that Japan, Korea and India have no business leaders worthy of being on that list? Or are they just proving the alleged axiom that American people don't know anything of what's happening outside their own country?

I'm sure all these men are/were brilliant individuals and overcame huge struggles to achieve what they did. But I'm also sure there are others in the world who deserve to be on that list. I'd really like to know the survey methodology, because it's just unfair to call this the "Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century". It's like calling a sports event the "World Series" with only Americans playing.

This is the list:

1. Samuel M. Walton | Wal-Mart
   
2. Walter E. Disney | Walt Disney
   
3. William H. Gates III | Microsoft
   
4. Henry Ford | Ford Motor
   
5. John P. Morgan | J.P. Morgan Chase
   
6. Alfred P. Sloan Jr. | General Motors
   
7. John F. Welch Jr. | General Electric
   
8. Raymond A. Kroc | McDonald's
   
9. William R. Hewlett | Hewlett-Packard
   
10. David Packard | Hewlett-Packard
    
11. Andrew S. Grove | Intel
    
12. Milton S. Hershey | The Hershey Co.
    
13. John D. Rockefeller Sr. | Standard Oil
    
14. Thomas J. Watson Jr. | IBM
    
15. Henry R. Luce | Time-Life Publications
    
16. Will K. Kellogg | Kellogg
    
17. Warren E. Buffett | Berkshire Hathaway
    
18. Harland Sanders | Kentucky Fried Chicken
    
19. William C. Procter | Procter & Gamble
    
20. Thomas J. Watson Sr. | IBM
    
21. Asa G. Candler | Coca-Cola
    
22. Estee Lauder | Estee Lauder
    
23. Henry J. Heinz H.J. | Heinz
    
24. Daniel F. Gerber Jr. | Gerber Products
    
25. James L. Kraft | Kraft Foods
    
26. Steven P. Jobs | Apple Computer
    
27. John T. Dorrance | Campbell Soup
    
28. Leon L. Bean | LL Bean
    
29. William Levitt | Levitt & Sons
    
30. Howard Schultz | Starbucks
    
31. Michael Dell | Dell Computer
    
32. Robert W. Johnson Jr. | Johnson & Johnson
    
33. James E. Casey | United Parcel Service
    
34. Herbert D. Kelleher | Southwest Airlines
    
35. George Eastman | Eastman Kodak
    
36. Philip H. Knight | Nike
    
37. James O. McKinsey | McKinsey & Co.
    
38. Charles R. Schwab | Charles Schwab
    
39. Frederick W. Smith | Federal Express
    
40. William Wrigley Jr. Wm. | Wrigley Jr. Co.
    
41. Gordon E. Moore | Intel
    
42. Robert (Ted) E. Turner | Turner Broadcasting
    
43. J. Willard Marriott Jr. | Marriott Int'l.
    
44. James E. Burke J | ohnson & Johnson
    
45. David Sarnoff | RCA
    
46. William E. | Boeing Boeing
    
47. Walter A. Haas Sr. | Levi Strauss
    
48. Henry J. Kaiser | Kaiser Industries
    
49. Walter A. Haas Jr. | Levi Strauss
    
50. Clarence Birdseye | Bird's Eye Foods