1991 Program Guide - Participants Comments
OBSERVATIONS
BY MEMBERS OF THE
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC STUDIES
(Titles
as of January, 1991)
"The
SMSS experience is excellent for the developing executive who
appreciates the importance of gaining a broad understanding
of the humanities; it is unsurpassed for the perceptive person
who expects at least half of his or her learning to come form
shared experiences and insights among peers. It is beyond anything
else available for the busy but efficient person who soaks up
wisdom in distributed time"
Raymond
M. Alden
Former Vice Chairman & President
United Telecommunications, Inc.
"SMSS
has been a subtle, complicated and enormously enjoyable educational
exchange..."
Barry
R. McCaffrey
Brigadier General
United States Army
"SMSS
is a truly dramatic breakthrough in the efficiency and effectiveness
of human communications. For the purpose of exchanging
ideas and imparting information, most certainly this form of
communication will largely replace professional correspondence,
colloquia and organized workshops as the best mechanism for
staying at the leading edge."
John
P. Craven
Professor of Law
University of Hawaii
Former Chief Scientist
Navy Special Projects Office
"....good
subject, good company, good medium, good learning. I was honored
to participate."
Peter
Goldmark
President
Rockefeller Foundation
Former Director
Port Authority,
New York & New Jersey
"There
is no doubt in my mind that we now have a learning tool of unprecedented
range and power...the electronic dialogue is more reflective,
candid, humorous and informal than most face-to-face meetings
in my long experience."
Harland
Cleveland
Dean
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
Former Assistant Secretary of State & Ambassador to
NATO
"SMSS
is a dynamite program that expands my professional and personal
horizons. It offers a worldwide 'classroom' linked together
by an exciting medium which allows me to learn and participate
on my own schedule. The topics are very relevant and the participants
offer insights that make each conference interesting."
Jerry
C. Harrison
Brigadier General
United States Army
If
one could combine the best of Aspen and Menninger weeks with
the best of Stanford, Harvard and Yale eight-week programsone
would only have scratched the outer layer of depth, intellectual
provocations, and senior executive contacts one is exposed to
in the twenty-four months of the School of Management and Strategic
Studies. No one else even comes close.
Lynne
OShea
Vice President, Business Development
Gannett Company
Having
been blessed with a lifetime of associating with the most intellectually
stimulating members of the human species, my demands of WBSI
were high. I was not disappointed. The participants' intellect,
experience and anecdotes, international travel, camaraderie,
and the electronic cerebral cortex they weave makes WBSI my
favorite campus, conference and pub."
Nicholas
Johnson
Former FCC Commissioner
U.S. Maritime Advisor and Presidential Advisor to Jimmy Carter.