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...immigrant who survived Nazism and Communism, Grove built a company that has survived the vicissitudes of the most fast-paced business in the new economy...
...Grove's built-in drive to succeed, combined with an aggressive business attitude and knowledge of the market propelled Intel to the head of the computer revolution and made Grove, who will deliver today's Class Day speech at Harvard Business School, one of the world's richest and shrewdest...
...Grove's speech is only one of a long list of accomplishments and awards he has received over the span of his remarkable career, which began when he emigrated to America...
Born in 1936 in Hungary as Andras Grof, Grove and his family, who were Jewish, survived World War II by assuming a fake name and hiding in Budapest with a Christian family. When his country was invaded again by the Soviet tanks, Grof changed his name again to Andrew Grove and fled to come to America to pursue his dreams of finding an education and a career...
...ambition landed him a job at Fairchild Semiconductor, a growing California company that had a reputation for snatching rising engineers. But Grove did not stay with Fairchild long--the lab provided him with a much better connection...