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- The Rockefeller Foundation awards $125,000 per year for seven years to the HBS industrial research program, enabling pioneering faculty efforts to continue.
- "250 Associates" organized to support research and give faculty "intellectual freedom in the planning of its research activities"
- More than half of HBS's 2,546 alumni have graduated within the past four years
- "Centre de Preparation aux Affaires," closely modeled on HBS and supported by HBS Professor Georges Doriot, opens in Paris
- HBS receives 1,200 applications for 600 first-year seats; begins interviewing candidates for admission
- Heads of 13 business schools in Europe and Asia visit and assess HBS as possible model
- School admits an "extra" 100 students (from 1,000 to 1,100) as a "hedge" against future declines in enrollment
- Social critic Abraham Flexner publishes Universities, and includes sharp criticism of HBS
- Straus family augments two former gifts to fully endow business history chair
- Tuition increases to $600 to reflect increased costs and keep section size down
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