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- Dean Donham proposes a "case system" of teaching, based in part on his own law school training, and aimed at bringing business reality into the classroom.
- With Dean Donham's strong encouragement, economist and HBS Professor Melvin T. Copeland produces the first HBS casebook: Marketing Problems.
- Copeland articulates HBS "case method" to Marketing classes
- Corporation approves five-year "joint program" of HBS and Engineering School
- Donham calls for HBS buildings "adequate to house a school of 1000"
- Harvard (and HBS) tuition increases from $200 to $250: HBS still "loses" $150 per student
- Industrial Management (later called Production) is included in mandatory first-year curriculum
- Would-be Shakespeare scholar Malcolm McNair joins faculty
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