Save the Children CIO in residence at Tuck
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—February 15, 2008
CONTACT: Kim Keating,
603-646-2733
HANOVER, N.H.—The Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth has announced that Save the Children's chief information officer (CIO) Edward Granger-Happ will join the center as an executive fellow and the CIO-in-Residence. In 2007, the editors of eWEEK, CIO Insight, and Baseline selected Granger-Happ as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT and one of the Top 100 CIOs.
During the upcoming spring quarter, Granger-Happ will work with students and pursue research on leadership and technology, including projects on "The 'Good Enough' Principle: What CIOs Can Learn from Nonprofits" and "Disruptive Innovation and International Nonprofits."
In addition to his role at Save the Children, an international nonprofit charity dedicated to creating lasting change in the lives of children in need, Granger-Happ is the chairman of the board and a founder of NetHope. NetHope is a collaborative group of IT professionals from international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including Save the Children, dedicated to delivering information and communications technology solutions to help with emergency relief, human development, and conservation programs in more than 150 countries. By sharing technology resources and expertise and partnering with industry leaders such as Cisco and Microsoft, NetHope NGO members can together create the scale needed to help the more than three billion underserved people and communities in the most remote areas of the world.
"One way we learn about strategies and innovations for technology and the emerging world is to listen to and interact with organizations outside our industries and sectors," said Granger-Happ, who will take a 90-day sabbatical from Save the Children to complete his fellowship at Tuck. "The nonprofit world has some important things to share with the corporate and academic communities, and these in turn have important things to say to the nonprofit community. I am delighted to be a part of the Dartmouth and the corporate communities represented in the Center for Digital Strategies that this fellowship affords."
Granger-Happ's 30 years of professional experience include all facets of managing information services and high-technology businesses, including general management, operations, sales, marketing, customer service, human resources management, technical consulting, manufacturing, and software and hardware development. The idea for NetHope came from a white paper he wrote during his first nine months at Save the Children and presented to Cisco in 2001.
"We are delighted to have Ed join us in the center. His creativity and insight will benefit students and faculty alike," said Professor Eric Johnson, director of the Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck. "Executive fellows provide a unique perspective to our research and we are grateful that Save the Children is willing to share Ed with the next generation of humanitarians."
To read more about the center and its research projects, please visit the Center for Digital Strategies website.
The Center for Digital Strategies focuses on the role of information technology in enabling business strategy. Through its programs and research, the center examines the impact of technology on all aspects of management and addresses issues throughout the extended enterprise, including globalization, organizational change, and information security.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management in the country and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Tuck remains distinctive among the world's great business schools by combining human scale with global reach, rigorous coursework with experiences requiring teamwork, and valued traditions with innovation.
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