Time Warner Cable CEO sponsors new technology impact series
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—April 1, 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 Tuck alumnus Glenn Britt, president and CEO of Time Warner Cable, will sponsor a new Tuck program series that examines the growing impact of technology on corporations and individuals.
The Britt Technology Impact Series will provide a theme each year to a series of MBA-facing initiatives including panels and conferences, industry speakers, and academic seminars. At the end of each year, the center will present a multimedia retrospective summarizing learning from the various events, providing students with tangible, forward-looking perspectives on the relevant business and technology issues. Britt will give $150,000 to Tuck over the next three years to fund the program.
"Scientists and engineers are constantly inventing new technologies," said Britt. "The role of business people is to understand the possibilities created by new technologies, recognize unmet consumer or business needs they could fulfill, and determine if the new technology and the customer needs can be put together in a business model that makes sense."
Amongst other initiatives, the series will include the center's long-standing Tech@Tuck event and the newer Tech@Tuck Speaker Series. The center's Tech@Tuck events present panels of executives debating a focused topic, as well as demonstrations of the latest products and services related to that topic. Previous topics have included digital music, mobility, offshore outsourcing, privacy and personalization, and, for this year, Web 2.0. Britt was a featured panelist for two Tech@Tuck events, one on digital video and one on the digital home.
"We are grateful to Glenn for stepping forward with this gift," said Hans Brechbühl, the center's executive director. "This will allow us to bring important content on the current impact of technology on business, on consumers and in particular industries, in a live way that augments learning in the classroom and provides a multimedia takeaway at the end of the year. We're very excited about it."
To read more about the center, and its research and programs, please visit the Center for Digital Strategies website.
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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