At most points in its history it employed as many as 15 full time staffers, mostly professionals, as well as hosting scores of visiting scholars and sponsored researchers over the years.
As is typical for an academic program, it offered courses and seminars, but it also produced more than 500 book-length reports, most after reviews from industry, government and academia.
[2] However, its principal goal was to aid industry, government and public decision makers with sound reasoning and with information that was both impartial and competent.
To address this concern, Oettinger and LeGates devised a funding plan that sought small sums from many competing stakeholders in the information industries.
[10] Program Principals also disseminated its findings and analysis through testimony and presentations, when requested, to Federal and state policymakers as well as in other public forums.
Here is the complete list over the 38 years of its operations: The impact of the Program is hard to measure directly: How can it be determined that organizations made better decisions?
Edward P. Larkin, Chairman, New York Public Service Commission, 1984 No other participant has done as much as your group to make the information age as successful as it is.
2012 In the course of its work on developing the JCS bill, the Investigations Subcommittee, which I chair, has benefited significantly from the studies authored by retired General J. H. Cushman.
I understand that the Program on Information Resources Policy has sponsored General Cushman's work, and commend you for supporting a project that is having an immediate, constructive impact as the Congress frames the future structure of the defense establishment.
Over the years, the Harvard Program has become an indispensable institution on which policymakers in both the public and private sector have come to depend for truthful and fearless advice, even if its views have run sometimes counter to popular or conventional wisdom.
I recognize this program and your work as being critical to the development of sound telecommunications policy, and I support your continued efforts to examine these important issues.
Congressman Edward J. Markey, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, 1991 This chapter is the most succinct and analytical source yet available for elucidating local distribution policy, planning, and marketing.
Kent Rhodes, Chairman, Reader's Digest, 1978 Your center is a gold mine of information—and I very much appreciate your thoughtfulness in filling up my reading file with such helpful and insightful materials.
"You could have used my name if you hadn't asked", Executive Office of the President, 1990 Your chart of information industries revenues will save us and our consultants many hundreds of hours of labor.
Charles M. Oliver, Director, Legislative and Regulatory Policy, CBS, Inc., 1981 I want both of you to know that our luncheon session last month and your follow-on work paid big dividends for us.
John Morgan, Assistant to Executive Vice President, Communications Workers of America, 1981 There is no question at all that Washington looks at your work as an outside expert of very high credibility.
William Ditch, American District Telegraph Corporation, 1981 David Charlton was very high in praise for you as the highest quality effort he has ever come in contact with.