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• 1950s

Also in 1955:

• Retailing specialist and recipient of HBS's second doctoral degree, Stanley F. Teele, is named HBS's 4th dean.
• The Harvard Business School Association (HBSA) now includes 52 clubs around the world, and 50 permanent class secretaries (up from 13 in 1949) contribute notes to the alumni Bulletin.
• HBS and Radcliffe formalize their working arrangement in the "Management Training Program" for women
• HBS receives $2 million grant from Ford Foundation in support of two research professorships, later renamed the Thomas Carroll Ford Foundation and Edsel Ford Professorships; Samuel Stouffer (of Harvard's Department of Social Relations) and Bertrand Fox are named first incumbents
• In June, first "Doctorate in Business Administration" is awarded; 41 "provisional candidates" are accepted into the DBA program
• Office of Overseas Relations is established to serve as central point of contact for requests for help from overseas; over next 8 years, OOR hosts 3,000 visitors from 85 countries
• 2 faculty advisory committees -- Domestic Programs and Foreign Programs -- are set up to help HBS choose appropriate partners
• 200,000 HBR reprints are sold
• 25th AMP achieves 99.4% participation in fund drive (lacking only one overseas member)
• Admissions director Lewis Ward leaves HBS to head Educational Testing Service's "Executive Study"; subsequently returns to join faculty
• Baker Library collection comprises some 310,700 books and pamphlets
• Bertrand Fox, Keith Butters, and C. Roland Christensen write report on research challenges at HBS
• Charles C. Abbott resigns from faculty to become first dean of new business school at the University of Virginia
• Engineers constitute a quarter of incoming MBAs (as opposed to less than 10 percent prewar)
• Faculty Committee on Case Development Policy urges a substantial expansion of case development; results in a doubling of case output
• Grace P. Bowser, head of Baker's Acquisition Division since 1927, retires
• HBS attends October AACSB meeting at Columbia on subject of doctoral programs in business adminstration; School is "now playing a significant role" in training researchers and teachers
• Incoming MBA class is first in recent years not to be interviewed
• John Davis and Ray Goldberg inaugurate HBS "agriculture and business" program
• Middle Management Program is shortened to 8 months
• Rockefeller Foundation makes 5-year extension to John Lintner's study of the impact of profits on the economy

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