- December 6, 2025
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Disciplined Approach
MANAGING by Francis X. Gilpin | Associate Editor
Gary M. Harpst got out of the technology business just in time. As the tech boom collapsed in 2000, Harpst and his partners sold a 20-year-old computer software company for $107 million in cash, stock and assumed debt to a larger competitor, which got swallowed up by Microsoft Corp. within a year.