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 programs—one 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 O’Shea
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