A CEO and his or her company.

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Business Finance

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Choose the CEO of any multinational—domestic or foreign. Research his/her background, education, experience, successes and mistakes, the company for which they are CEO and the innovations, changes, growth or problems the company has had. This is a study in corporate management/leadership. The company must be a MNC with offshore business in some form or another—product, service, manufacturing, etc. Five pages, double spaced.

I took it upon myself to choose the CEO and his company to make easier for tutor. I chose SAS Inc. A privately held company who has had the same CEO since the company became incorporated, James Goodnight.

Below are a bunch of links that should have most of, if not all the needed information about James and his company in order to write this paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Goodnight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute

https://www.fastcompany.com/3004953/how-sas-became...

https://www.forbes.com/profile/james-goodnight/

https://www.sas.com/en_us/company-information.html...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2014/05/12/...

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Running head: SAS INSTITUTE

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Introduction
SAS Institute is a multinational company based in Cary, North Carolina. The franchise
develops and markets software analytics suites. SAS was named after the software package, suites
of analytics software (SAS). The SAS products help in accessing, analyzing, managing and
reporting on particular information that in turn facilitates the development of decision support
systems. The group is an international leader in the private software business. Majorly, the fortune
500 companies use SAS’ soft wares. In 1976, James Goodnight, John Sall, Anthony James and
Jane Helwig founded SAS. James Goodnight, the CEO of the company, owns up to two-thirds of
the company (FASTCOMPANY).
CEO James Howard Goodnight is an American software developer and a successful
businessman. In 1976, when Goodnight left the North Carolina State University, he co-founded
the company together with his other three faculty members. Since July 1, 1976, the day SAS
became incorporation of the four members, James Goodnight became the CEO of the private
company (Forbes Profile). The company, now a multibillionaire private company has significantly
grown with other companies admiring its management. James Goodnight’s leadership style and
expertise in managing the company is attributed to the high success and growth of the private
company.
James Goodnight’s Background and Education
James Howard Goodnight was born in 1943 in Salisbury, US. Until the age of 12 years,
goodnight and the family lived in Greensboro, NC, and later moved to Wilmington. James worked
at his father’s hardware during the weekends and the holidays. In school, James liked mathematics
and Chemistry. James attended high school at the New Hanover High School. He later joined the

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North Carolina State University. It is at this university and level of education that James Howard
developed the interest in software development and love for computers. At the university, in his
sophomore year, Goodnight decided to pursue a computer course. The summer that followed,
Goodnight got employed at an agricultural economics department. In the department, his work was
to write so...


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