{"id":912,"date":"2015-10-09T19:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T02:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullivant.wpengine.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T03:11:53","slug":"nike-crossroads-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/nike-crossroads-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Houser Retires from Nike&#8217;s Board, Tells a Fateful Creation Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Friday, October 09, 2015<br \/>\nAllan Brettman<\/p>\n<p><em>The Oregonian<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Doug Houser&#8217;s long tenure at Bullivant is matched only by his time as Nike&#8217;s longest-serving board member, along with founder and Chairman of the Board, Phil Knight, beginning in 1965. His retirement from the Nike board and its three-person Executive Committee in September closes a chapter in the sportswear firm&#8217;s history that has seen enormous successes. But, that success was nearly cut short before the name &#8220;Nike&#8221; came to prominence. In this Oregonian story, Doug reveals some of the little known, but colorful anecdotes about Nike&#8217;s early days along with his deep respect and admiration for the company and his fellow board members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Story Link: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/playbooks-profits\/index.ssf\/2015\/10\/post_74.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Doug Houser recalls Nike&#8217;s &#8216;win or die&#8217; crossroads lawsuit<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Friday, October 09, 2015 Allan Brettman The Oregonian Doug Houser&#8217;s long tenure at Bullivant is matched only by his time as Nike&#8217;s longest-serving board member, along with founder and Chairman of the Board, Phil Knight, beginning in 1965. His retirement from the Nike board and its three-person Executive Committee in September closes a chapter in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[197],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-news","authorormentioned-douglas-houser","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}