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- The faculty votes to go into continuous session at least until June 1948 to accommodate a crush of returning veterans in MBA program.
- A group of 60 executives and veterans enroll in the first run of the "Advanced Management Program," first run of wartime-originated program with no government support
- Faculty waives requirement of bachelor's degree for returning veterans
- The faculty rescinds all previous course authorizations, designs a new postwar curriculum, and votes to approve "Elements of Administration" curriculum in February; changes mainly restricted to first year
- David calls for construction of classroom building and dining hall
- David cites case method's "power as a research technique"
- Edmund Learned is awarded Distinguished Service Medal by the Army Air Forces for his work with the Stat School
- HBS takes over publishing of HBR from McGraw-Hill
- Library collection reaches 245,000 volumes
- School's budget of $1.6 million is roughly balanced, but depends on $450,000 in gifts; David calls for an HBS endowment of $15 million
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