Robert Nourse

Robert Nourse

Robert E.M. Nourse is an entrepreneur and former President and CEO of The Bombay Company.

Bob Nourse founded The Bombay Company of Canada and opened the first store in Toronto in 1980. Under his leadership The Bombay Company grew to 432 stores and more than 6,000 employees in Canada and the United States, with net sales of US$318 million for 1994. Mr. Nourse guided The Bombay Company to its successful listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 1993. Later that year, Inc. Magazine voted him “Entrepreneur of the Year,” calling the firm “America’s hottest company.”

Mr. Nourse holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business (1964) and a DBA from Harvard Business School. After nine years as a professor at Ivey and after holding the position of Chairman of the MBA program, in 1976 he left academia to become a venture capitalist and an executive with Venturetek International Ltd.

Awards

*1993- Inc. Magazine voted him the Entrepreneur of the Year

External links

* [http://www.inc.com/magazine/19931201/3817.html Introduction and list of judges and winners for Inc.'s 1993 Entrepreneur of Year Award]


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