Britt Sponsors Tuck Program
Series Will Examine Impact of Technology On Business, Individuals
By Mike Farrell -- Multichannel News, 4/4/2008 1:24:00 PM
Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt is sponsoring a new program series at the Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College that will examine the impact of technology on corporations and individuals and the business strategy issues surrounding new technology.
The Britt Technology Impact Series will provide a coherent theme each year to a series of current and new MBS-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 the various events.
Britt, an alumnus of the Tuck School and of Dartmouth College, will give $150,000 over the next three years to fund the series.
“Scientists and engineers are constantly inventing new technologies,” Britt said in a statement. “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.”
Among other initiatives, the new 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’re very grateful to Glenn for stepping forward with this gift,” said Hans Brechbühl, the center’s Executive Director in a statement. “This will allow us to bring important content on the current impact of technology on business, on consumers and in particular industries, in a very live way that augments the learning in the classroom and provides a multimedia takeaway at the end of the year. We’re very excited about it.”
