Robert M. Price (September 26, 1930 – December 31, 2020) was an American computer scientist and business executive.
[1] After graduation from Duke University in 1952, he moved to California and worked as a computer programmer at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and the Convair division of General Dynamics Corporation.
Price was president and CEO of PSV, Inc., offering services in technology commercialization, corporate strategy, and human resource management.
Price led Control Data's early expansion into international operations and marketing as well as the strategic move into information and systems integration services.
[7] In 1985 Price led a consortium of corporations and individuals in the founding of the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs (NCSE), for which he served as chairman for many years.
The center's mission is to encourage entrepreneurship throughout the non-profit sector, and to help individual non profits create or expand social purpose business ventures.
[8] Price served for many years on the boards of the Guthrie Theater, the Minnesota Opera, and the Greater Minneapolis United Way; and was a donor to Santa Fe Opera, the University of Minnesota's Athletic Program and School of Veterinary Medicine, and The Nature Conservancy.
He served on the advisory board of New York University's Courant Institute; Duke's Fuqua School of Business; Georgia Tech's College of Arts and Sciences.
Harvard Business Review (April 1996) case study "Technology and Strategic Advantage."