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- Three women graduates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration are admitted to 2nd year of MBA program; they become first women to receive HBS MBAs (in 1960)
- "Management Information Systems" faculty group is formally organized
- Edmund Learned and Catherine Ellsworth publish Gasoline Pricing in Ohio
- Ford Foundation publishes Gordon and Howell's Higher Education for Business, and Carnegie Foundation publishes Pierson's The Education of American Businessmen, both highly critical of business education
- Fritz Roethlisberger wins Harvard's George Ledlie Prize
- George Albert Smith teaches new "Business, Society, and the Individual" course
- George Bates publishes Investment Management
- HBS Club of Vancouver is established
- HBS establishes a 12-month "Institute of Basic Mathematics for Application to Business" with Ford Foundation support, to upgrade key leaders of business doctoral programs; 41 applicants from 32 universities enroll
- Howard Raiffa, James Healy, Thomas Kennedy, and Edward Wrapp are promoted to full professor
- John Day and Paul Donham publish New Enterprises and Small Business Management
- Martin Marshall publishes Advertising Management
- Philip Thurston publishes Systems and Procedures Responsibility
- President Eisenhower and Secretary of Labor James Mitchell ask Robert Livernash to study collective bargaining in steel industry
- Robert Schlaifer publishes Probability and Statistics for Business Decisions
- Sales of Intercollegiate Case Clearing House materials increase from 204,000 pages in 1958 to 3.2 million pages in 1959
- Teele appoints an 8-person "MBA Study Committee" (later known as the "Anthony Committee") to conduct a "completely fresh survey" of the MBA program
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