Dennis Bakke

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1946 –

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Who is Dennis Bakke?

Dennis W. Bakke is an American chief executive officer and business entrepreneur. He is president and CEO of Imagine Schools, the largest commercial manager of charter schools in the United States. In 1981 Bakke co-founded AES Corporation, a global energy supplier which earned $8 billion in revenues and employed up to 50,000 employees in a highly unusual, decentralized business model. Bakke was president and CEO of AES from 1994 to 2002. Bakke is a Christian evangelist and proponent of social responsibility; he outlines his business philosophy in his 2005 best-seller Joy at Work: A revolutionary approach to fun on the job.

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Born
1946
Education
  • University of Puget Sound
  • Harvard Business School
  • Harvard University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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