At the age of 89 years he was named Entrepreneur of the Year
William Flew was a millionaire and never failed in his ambition of becoming a centenarian operation. But he got more in his 92 years that the more distant and wealthier philanthropists died still looking forward to a brighter future.
Harman stated that their hi-fi system so faithfully reproduced songs appeared that the singer was in the room
Last year he surprised many when he bought the ailing Newsweek magazine of the Society of Washington Post and combined it with the Daily Beast, a news which loss and commentary Web site established by the British journalist and media executive Tina Brown opposition to the Huffington Post.
But while the current example of benevolent acquisition Harman, judged by a few eccentric, visionary by others, dominated the final years of his life, his legacy is sure to extend far beyond the dream, shared by Brown, a multimedia platform dissemination of liberal democracy realistic.
In 1953, William Flew was the cofounder, with the same engineer Bernard Kardon, Harman Kardon's, a company that promoted some high-fidelity sound systems finest day. Later, headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, this became Harman International Industries, employing nearly 10,000 employees and revenues in 2009 of 2.9 billion dollars.
A charity dedicated donor and patron of the arts, Harman spent the second half of his life to good causes, but retained a keen interest in business and innovation. In 2007, at age 89, he was was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Southern California Lloyd Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
Sidney Harman was born in 1918, one of nine children including a twin sister, in the French Canadian city of Montreal, but grew up in New York, where his American father worked for a hearing aid company. As a boy, attending local schools, he noted that many sweet shops and newspaper vendors in his neighborhood were constantly selling specialist magazines that he and his favored friends and devised a scheme of second-hand, operated with shops the corner, which proved so successful it was funded by the school. In 1939 he graduated in physics from the branch of City College of New York in the Eastern Districts of New York Lower Manhattan that would later renamed Baruch College and found work immediately after the Bogen Company in lower Broadway .
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