Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American Available Now.

Harvard Business School Professor Richard S. Tedlow Writes Definitive Biography of One of America's Most Admired Businesspeople

BOSTON -- Richard S. Tedlow's new book Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American (Portfolio, November 2006) is a compelling and insightful biography about the challenges of building a business in the era of high technology. The product of intensive research, scores of interviews, and unprecedented access to informed sources, Tedlow's book provides a wealth of new information about Andy Grove's remarkable success and a myriad of valuable lessons on strategy, innovation, management, leadership, and triumph over adversity.

Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel during its years of explosive growth, is on the shortlist of America's most admired businesspeople. Brilliant, daring, and willing to defy conventional wisdom, Grove is, according Tedlow, "the best model we have for leading a business in the twenty-first century." A gifted engineer, Grove transformed himself into an even better manager. Using exclusive access to Grove's papers and diaries (excerpts debut in the book), Tedlow reveals the inside story of how this once-penniless immigrant built one of the world's most successful companies and led it through some of the toughest challenges in business history.

Tedlow's narrative grippingly portrays Grove as a shining example of the promise of American life. Born in Budapest of Jewish origin in 1936, Andras Istvan Grof survived the Nazis only to face the Soviet invasion of his country. He fled to America at the age of twenty, earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, and arrived in Silicon Valley just in time for an historic opportunity. He became the third employee of Intel, working for the legendary Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Together, they helped to create the modern computer industry and the world's technology future.

Early praise for Richard Tedlow's Andy Grove:

"Tedlow's Andy Grove is a tour de force. You must read this. It's the extraordinary, warm and detailed story of Andy Grove - immigration, innovation and leadership."

Co John Doerr, one of the nation's leading venture capitalists

"Andy Grove is everything Richard Tedlow describes in this definitive biography. Andy defines leadership in the modern age and Tedlow captures it perfectly."

Co Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google Inc.

"Just when you thought you had seen the last and best of American pioneers, along comes Andy Grove, who against all odds, almost single-handedly blazed new trails in the uncharted digital landscape. Richard Tedlow pulls back the curtain to give us the most intimate portrait yet of one the most successful and inspirational business leaders of all time."

Co Richard D. Parsons, Chairman & CEO, Time Warner Inc.

Availability

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About the Author

Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the author of Giants of Enterprise (one of BusinessWeek 's ten best books of 2001) and The Watson Dynasty. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts. For more information, visit the author's website at www.richardtedlow.com.

ANDY GROVE: The Life and Times of an American
Portfolio / Hardcover / $29.95 / ISBN 1-59184-139-9
Publication Date: November 2, 2006