 Returning to the presidency of WBSI in 1979, Farson guided the institute’s development of educational, scholarly and therapeutic communities formed through the use of advanced computer communication technologies.The centerpiece of this effort was the School of Management and Strategic Studies, a network of senior executives from 26 countries who joined a distinguished faculty to deliberate, via computer conferencing, on the new requirements of leadership.This project, begun in 1981, launched the now burgeoning field of online distance learning.