Oral history interview with Jim Goodnight, July 22, 1999
Subtitle: interview I-0073, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Chief executive officers; Computer software industry; Employee fringe benefits; International business enterprises; Industries; History; SAS Institute
Other titles: Interview I-0073, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Jim Goodnight, July 22, 1999; Oral histories of the American South.
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.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 24, 2007).

Interview participants: Jim Goodnight, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer.

Duration: 01:28:54.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series I, Business history, interview I-0073, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 40 p.

Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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