Hall of Fame
Nolan D. Archibald was born and reared in Ogden, Utah. He was an All-American basketball player at Dixie College leading the Rebels to the National Junior College Basketball Finals.
After graduating from Dixie College, he earned a B.S. degree from Weber State University where he led the Wildcats to their first appearance in the NCAA tournament. He was named as an Academic All-American.
He then went on to earn an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School. He was invited to try out with the Chicago Bulls, but missed the final cut concluding, “they had no vision.”
Nolan has served as Chairman, President and CEO of the Black & Decker Corporation, a five billion dollar company with 40,000 employees doing business in over 100 countries thought the world. Fortune magazine named him as one of the “ten most wanted managers” in the United States and Business Week named him one of the six best managers. In 1997, Archibald was named Alumnus of the Year by the American Association of Community Colleges.
