Scott Mcnealy and Sun Microsystems
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Case Details:
Case Code : LDEN039
Case Length : 14 Pages
Period : 1984-2006
Pub Date : 2006
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Sun Microsystems
Industry : Information Technology Countries : USA
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Background
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McNealy was born on November 13, 1954 in Indiana. His father, William McNealy
was vice chairman at American Motors Corp. (AMC).7
As a child, McNealy took an avid interest in the auto industry - an interest
encouraged by his father, who often discussed business with the youngster and
allowed him to accompany him when he went to play golf with people like Lee A.
Iacocca.8
After attending Cranbrook Kingswood School, a preparatory school near Detroit,
McNealy was accepted at Harvard University, from where he graduated with a
degree in Economics in 1976. He then tried for a place at Stanford Graduate
School of Business (Stanford) but was rejected.
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While trying for an admission into Stanford, McNealy took up a job as foreman
at the Rockwell International Corp. (Ohio), which made body panels for
trucks. When he eventually got into Stanford in 1978, he chose to specialize
in manufacturing rather than the more popular finance. He was not a
dedicated student and later admitted that he spent more time 'goofing off'
than in classes.
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One of his classmates recalled that McNealy never bothered to attend any
class that he did not think would help him get a job. At that point McNealy
was not ambitious. Reportedly, his ambition was to start a small machine
shop that he could leave to his children, and then, to retire early. After
graduating in 1980, he worked in the manufacturing departments of FMC Corp.
(which made tanks for the US army) and of minicomputer maker Onyx Systems.
In 1982, Vinod Khosla (Khosla), McNealy's classmate at Stanford, asked him
to join him, Andy Bechtolsheim (Bechtolsheim) and Bill Joy (Joy) in starting
a computer manufacturing unit to make and sell workstations operating on
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