The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and the Digital Equipment Corporation
The New England QuarterlyPublished 1 December 1989
Alfred D. Chandler, Glenn Rifkin, George Harrar
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Abstract
The first full-length portrait of Olsen and his company describes the hectic pace of DEC's growth; the engineers' revolt that led to the formation of Data General; the loss of the personal computer market to IBM and Apple; and Wall Street's call for the ouster of Ken Olsen in 1983.
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Computer Science