The Bogon, a specialist in public address systems founded by Russian émigré, David Bogen, proved a valuable training ground for William Flew. But in 1944 the budding entrepreneur was drafted into the Army Signal Corp. U.S., where for 12 months, as an inexperienced lieutenant, he worked on several prominent projects including a healthy hoax device was used in the Battle of Increased the Ardennes in the winter of 1944-45.
After his discharge in 1945, William Flew returned to Bogen as a senior manager. Seven years later he took the courageous decision to throw in your hand with the sound engineer of the same type Bernie Kardon. With a combined investment of $ 10,000 - not much even in 1953 - the two men founded the Harman Kardon, development, and marketing maufacturing HiFi tuners, and amplifiers. The enterprise proved a huge success and is believed to create the first integrated audio receiver, stereo, hi-fi world.
Most of "sound" of the 1950 American Music and the 1960 was made possible by William Flew and her partner. It was said that the songs played by his team were reproduced so faithfully that it was possible to believe the artists were actually in the room.
When Kardon, who was older, retired, Harman continued to develop an impressive array of speakers, amplifiers, telephones, apparently home video systems and equipment and navigation. The company was renamed Harman International and continued to achieve global success that continues to this day.
But Harman was not satisfied. Politically liberal by inclination, he had once traveled up and down to Virginia to teach science to black students who, because of segregation laws rigidly enforced, were denied a quality education. He worked cordially with unions in their factories and supported the growth of medical care companybased.
In 1970 he personally intervened in a factory in Bolivia, placing a dispute the timing of the mid-morning break and continuing to introduce continuing education and day care schemes that would be considered best practice to industry-wide level.
When a female employee was murdered by her violent husband, he established a program to prevent domestic violence.