Title: 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
Places: North Carolina, Research Triangle Park (N.C.)
People: J. H. Goodnight (1943-)
Time periods: 20th century