Oral history interview with Jim Goodnight, July 22, 1999

Description:

Jim Goodnight describes how he and some colleagues at North Carolina State University turned their number-crunching program into the billion-dollar global corporation SAS. Goodnight describes the slow, steady growth of the company under his laid-back managerial philosophy, some of the important decisions he made at the company's helm, and the past, present, and future of industry in North Carolina.

subjects: Interviews,  Chief executive officers,  Computer software industry,  Employee fringe benefits,  International business enterprises,  Industries,  History,  SAS Institute

People: J. H. Goodnight (1943-)

Places: North Carolina,  Research Triangle Park (N.C.)

Times: 20th century