Word: microsoft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Erskine Wood'01 arrived in a wheelchair for a dinner in Oregon. Wood sang President Bok a song, spoofing the president, which he and his classmates had sung to College president Charles W. Eliot in their senior year. Another group, recent graduates who all work for Microsoft. Inc., came to the same dinner wearing t-shirts sporting "Harvard Club of Microsoft...
...risk and the presumptuous hope of success," precisely the skills needed to found new businesses. Indeed, a large number of entrepreneurs have achieved success at a very early age. One of many examples: William Gates, 26, dropped out of Harvard in 1975 during his sophomore year to form Microsoft, which makes software for personal computers. Its 1981 sales: $15 million...
...Microsoft. Best known for its version of the program-writing language, BASIC which has sold more than 500,000 copies so far, Microsoft (projected 1981 sales: $14 million) was founded in 1975 by William Gates, then an 18-year-old Harvard student. Gates now oversees a staff of 96 at the firm's headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. Growth has come so fast that Gates has not yet found time to finish his degree at Harvard...