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He is married to the playwright Irene Rosenberg Wurtzel, and has three grown children. He lives in Washington, D.C. and Delaplane, Virginia.
Feb 9, 2024 · Alan Wurtzel, OC ’55, and his wife, Irene Wurtzel, recently committed $5 million to boost Oberlin College’s business program. The program currently includes a Business Integrative Concentration, which was launched three years ago, but no major or minor.
Oct 23, 2012 · Wurtzel received a B.A. from Oberlin College and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is married to the playwright, Irene Rosenberg Wurtzel, and has three grown children. He lives in Washington,...
- Alan Wurtzel
- Diversion Books, 2012
- 1938120256, 9781938120251
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Father and son Samuel S. Wurtzel and Alan L. Wurtzel propelled the Circuit City Stores into a conglomerate specializing in consumer electronics, digital video programming, music software, and automobile sales. Today it is the United States' largest retailer of brand name consumer electronics and appliances. This remarkable growth started from the s...
Samuel S. Wurtzel was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey, March 2, 1907, the son of Jacob and Flora Wurtzel. He was an accounting student at the Pace School, at City College, and New YorkUniversity. He married Ruth Mann in 1932. They had two sons, Alan and David. Samuel Wurtzel died in 1985. Alan L. Wurtzel, the older son, was born in Mount Vernon, New...
Samuel Wurtzel worked for nine years, beginning in 1938, for Packing Products in New York City. In 1949, he was on vacation with his family in Richmond when a local barber informed him that the very first Southern TV station was going to air. Wurtzel began thinking about the possibilities of this fresh market for televisions. Later that year, he mo...
It was during Alan Wurtzel's involvement with Circuit City that he began to realize the problems with the education system in the United States, and especially with the local education system. Wurtzel and his staff were frustrated with trying to hire young people who could "read, write, and interact" on a level that made them capable of working in ...
Contact at: Circuit City Stores Inc. 9950 Mayland Dr. Richmond, VA 23233 Business Phone: (804)527-4000 URL: http://www.circuitcity.com
Leadership →. Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century. Request the Data. Alan L. Wurtzel. Circuit City Stores. 1973–1986. Industry: Retail. Era: 1970. Wurtzel took the helm of his family’s electronic retailing business and built it into a major retailer of electronics and appliances.
He is married to the playwright Irene Rosenberg Wurtzel, and has three grown children. He lives in Washington, D.C. and Delaplane, Virginia. References. External links. Edit in Wikipedia Revision history Read in Wikipedia. Alan Wurtzel is an American businessman, author, speaker, and philanthropist.
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May 29, 2015 · Elizabeth Wurtzel and James Freed Jr. were married on the roof of a loft in SoHo, but needed last-minute approval to do so. Devin Yalkin for The New York Times. By Bob Morris. May 29, 2015. The...
