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James Henry Binger (1916 – November 5, 2004) was a lawyer who became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell. He was also a well known philanthropist, horse enthusiast and New York and Minneapolis theatre owner and entrepreneur. ==Career== The son of a doctor, Binger grew up on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended Saint Paul Academy,〔()〕 where he met his wife Virginia McKnight, daughter of 3M Chairman, William L. McKnight. He earned an economics degree from Yale University (class of 1938). His lifelong interest in the theatre was sparked while he was at Yale.〔(Yale School of Drama, alumni magazine, Fall 2008, pg. 52 )〕 He next earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and on graduation, he joined Minneapolis law firm Dorsey & Whitney, where a client was Honeywell.〔(McKnight Obituary )〕 In 1943 he joined Honeywell, and became its president in 1961 and its chairman in 1965. On becoming Chairman of Honeywell, Binger revamped the company sales approach, placing emphasis on profits rather than on volume. he also stepped up the company's international expansion – it had six plants producing 12% of the company's revenue. He also officially changed the company's corporate name from Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co to Honeywell.〔(Time magazine interview on becoming COO )〕 Under Binger's stewardship from 1961 to 1978 he expanded the company into such fields as defense, aerospace, computers and cameras. Honeywell was one of the eight major computer companies (with IBM – the largest, Burroughs, Scientific Data Systems, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC) through most of the 1960s. In 1970, Honeywell bought General Electric's computer division. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James H. Binger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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