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Rex Adams

Rex Adams is the dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Wrote about:
Do Online Education and Training Click?

Is reading:
On a daily basis ... the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New York Times.

Is learning:
Adams is working on the financing for and growth of Duke Corporate Education Inc., the new, private company spun off from Fuqua in July 2000 to house Fuqua's customized executive-education operation. Adams and his colleagues expect business to grow substantially as the demand for assistance with corporate education and distance-learning technology continue to grow rapidly. Duke owns 60% of the company, and Adams chairman of the board of directors.

Coordinates: adams@mail.duke.edu

Leon Botstein

Leon Botstein has been president of Bard College since 1975. He is also the Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Bard. He received his BA with special honors in history from the University of Chicago and his MA and PhD in European history from Harvard, as well several honorary degrees. He was a National Arts Club Gold Medal recipient in 1995, and, in 1996, he was awarded the Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences. This year, he received a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.

Leon Botstein is also music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, as well as coartistic director of the Bard Music Festival and artistic director of the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra. In addition to conducting the ASO's subscription concert series at Lincoln Center, Botstein also has an active international career, making frequent guest appearances with major orchestras around the world.

Wrote about:
Do Online Education and Training Click?

Is learning:
Botstein is teaching a first-year seminar on the subject of war and peace, which includes essays by Thucydides, Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Hobbes, and Freud.

Is reading:

• The Bible
• The Republic By Plato
• History of the Peloponnesian War By Thucydides

Coordinates: president@bard.edu

Mishka Brown

Mishka Brown is cofounder and president of Aerolith Inc. Aerolith is based in Harlem, New York and is a strategic-solutions provider focusing on urban, ethnic, and immigrant communities in North America. Aerolith helps companies make and implement intelligent business decisions regarding those communities.

Brown, a graduate of Yale University, grew up and studied in Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and England before moving to the United States. Always interested in the transformational capabilities of knowledge and culture, she is enthusiastic about the potential of Internet technology to change individuals and communities once it becomes truly attractive and accessible to everyone.