Harvard Business School Association of Northern California honors 3Com Corporation as the "Entrepreneurial Company of the Year"

Business Wire, April 17, 1997

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 1997--Harvard Business School Association of Northern California, a local alumni organization of the Harvard Business School, today named 3Com Corporation as the 1997 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year, honoring the personification and preservation of entrepreneurial spirit.

"Our Association is recognizing 3Com for their contribution to the electronic community and their continued entrepreneurial innovations that have affected the way we live, work and play," Richard Decker, the Association's chairman said. "3Com created the Local Area Networking industry which impacts the way most businesses work today. 3Com's continued innovations are a driving force in the communications industry."

A dinner honoring 3Com will be held at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood Shores on Thursday, April 24, 1997 at 6:30 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Eric Benhamou, 3Com's CEO and chairman, who has grown the company from $400 million in revenues to a $5 billion networking leader on the threshold of an exciting merger with U.S. Robotics. Also speaking is 3Com's founder and principal inventor of the Ethernet networking standard, Dr. Robert Metcalfe.

From the beginning, with its groundbreaking contributions that commercialized a technology, created jobs and improved productivity, 3Com's entrepreneurial spirit has blazed a trail in our industry," said Ron Sege, senior vice president and general manager of 3Com LAN Operations and a Harvard Business School graduate.

Past Entrepreneurial Company of the Year award recipients include John Chambers of Cisco Systems, Jim Barksdale of Netscape Communications and Scott Cook of Intuit.

The proceeds generated from the evening will benefit Harvard Business School Association's Community Partners, a volunteer organization which provides consulting and management assistance to Bay Area non-profit organizations and for Harvard Business School scholarships. People interested in attending the dinner should call Karen Bertani at 415/206-9603.

CONTACT: For Harvard Business School Assn. of Northern Calif.

Karen Bertani, 415/206-9603