Phil Knight was supplementing his modest income from Blue Ribbon Sports Inc. by teaching an accountant class at Portland State University. ... In 1958, Phil Knight, a business major a the University of Oregon, and a miler on the track team, shared with his coach, Bill Bowerman, a dissatisfaction with the clumsiness of American running shoes. ... His educational background is Business Administration, University of Oregon (1959); M.B.A., Stanford University (1962). ... A co-founder of Nike and former University of Oregon miler with a personal best 4:10, Phil Knight received an MBA from Stanford ...

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Knight, at Stanford Business School, wrote up an analysis of how profitable it would be to import cheap but good Japanese running shoes, then sell them in the United States. ... The next year. a Portland State University design student, Carolyn Davidson, sketched a flat, floating check mark as a symbol for the running shoes. ...

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Bowerman was a living legend at the University of Oregon. He was a very accomplished teacher and coach who was responsible for an exceptional track and field program at the university. ... He then gave new product to a few of his runners at the university to try out. ... Johnson, a former Stanford School of Business track runner, gave Blue Ribbon Sports a new name. ... Around this time, when Nike was not making much of a profit, Knight also worked as an accounting teacher at Portland state University. ...

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