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Eli Harari: Engineering after Princeton

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By Michael E. Wood on Aug. 19, 2010, noon
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SanDisk Corp. founder Eli Harari, who earned his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1973, describes how a successful inventor changes the world by pushing innovation.

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