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Throughout his career, Harber has been involved in numerous businesses ranging form survey research and high technology (where he organized software companies) to venture capital, talk radio, and movie and television production. Within days of being graduated from college, Harber started the Colorado Accounting & Tax Service.
Harber served as chairman of Centre Entertainment, Inc., a video production, film production and distribution company (A Norman Rockwell Christmas Story and Legend Of The Spirit Dog; the latter was the first dramatic, live-action feature film made by Discovery Communications). Harber served as president of Wild Horse Productions, Inc., a company originally formed to develop a feature film to be entitled, Wild Horses for Animal Planet and Discovery Communications, for which a complete script received funding and final approval.
In the early 1990s, Harber was a co-founder and chairman of the Women’s Equity Fund, a nationally-recognized, experimental venture capital firm assisting women and men start new businesses and expand existing ones. Harber focused on challenging established thinking to expand the access women had to business capital.
For over thirty years, Harber has served as president of the American Research Corporation, where his work has included strategic planning, research, business advisory services, organizational consulting, public opinion polling, and computer software. He has managed software development projects, served private and public sector clients domestically and internationally, and participated in state and federal government projects.
Harber was a co-founder and served as president and chairman of Silicon Valley software company TeamOne Systems (in the Apollo, Digital, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems markets) which tackled the national need to automate the writing of computer software.
He was elected as chairman of the innovative fiber-optic large-display company Mall TV, Inc. and served as chairman of one of the nation’s first retail virtual reality companies, V-Space, Inc.
Harber has chaired numerous domestic and international events and has appeared as a public speaker, moderator, and facilitator. He mediates crises and advises numerous organizations pro bono.
Harber has served as a member of the national board of the Prostate Cancer Education Council. His greatest contribution to helping fight cancer came in 2006 when he directed General Colin Powell in the production of four nationally-broadcast television Public Service Announcements encouraging men to get tested for cancer. These productions also represented Harber’s directorial debut.
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