Among the recipients were Rupert Murdoch , the chief executive of News Corporation ; Judith Regan , the publisher with her own imprint at HarperCollins ; Stanley S. Shuman , managing director at Allen & Company , the investment firm ; two partners at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers , the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of which Mr. Perkins was a founder ; and Mr. Kaplan , the Newsweek reporter , who is writing a book about a yacht that Mr. Perkins recently had built .