Decades before Nike moved to its bucolic corporate campus with running trails, a six-acre lake and a salon, employees worked out of what’s now a collision repair shop on Southeast Powell Boulevard. They needed a javelin to close the windows and worked from desks that co-founder Phil Knight separated with plywood.
This week, Nike is honoring Knight with “Founder’s Week,” and marking the recent renaming of the company’s leafy 400-acre campus the Philip H. Knight Campus.
As part of its coverage of Founder’s Week, The Oregonian/OregonLive visited every office Nike has called home. The driving tour traces the company’s journey from scrappy underdog to corporate giant, illustrating how its business evolved along the way. It also showcases Knight’s hustle, strategic thinking and entrepreneurial instincts, traits that second-year CEO Elliott Hill is working to reboot as part of an ongoing turnaround effort…