Timeline: 1964
First computer (an IBM 1401) is installed on campus; used for "business games" in classroom, research, and administration
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- 31 DBAs -- largest total in history of doctoral program to date -- are awarded
- Entering MBA class includes 683 men and 3 women
- HBS active case collection totals 26,967
- 1907 Foundation Professorship of Business Logistics is established
- 68 "active faculty research projects" are underway; largest total in School's history
- Baker writes that HBS wants to increase applications from women and minorities
- David Professorship, honoring Dean David, is established
- Faculty Advisory Committee on International Activities promulgates rules for HBS engagement in foreign programs: 1) foreign experience for faculty is good; 2) formal foreign affiliations will be limited to 3 at any one time, involving no more than 8 faculty members
- First high-speed copier (a Xerox 914) is installed in Baker; in less than 4 months, 25,000 copies are made
- Four new HBS clubs -- in the Central Carolinas, Japan, South Africa, and Lima, Peru -- are formed
- HBS Fund sets two new records with $600,000 in gifts from 12,000 contributors
- HBS investigates "Tele-Case Discussion" potential, using phone networks to conduct discussions on a nationwide basis
- HBS professors teach first program at Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE) in Antigua, Guatemala; 46 owners and managers of businesses in 6 countries attend
- HBS receives a "very large grant" from IBM to support a 10-year, Harvard-wide program on technological advances and social change
- Harry Hansen, HBS Club of London, and British Institute of Management jointly offer 6-week executive course at Bede College
- Informal relationship between HBS and INSEAD (at Fontainebleau, France) begins
- Intercollegiate Case Clearing House sells $154,000 worth of cases; becomes self-sustaining
- Lewis Ward heads new Data Processing Center
- McNair Professorship, honoring HBS Professor Malcolm McNair, is established; Harry Hansen is named first incumbent (in 1965)
- Paul Lawrence becomes head of OB area (through 1969)
- Robert Anthony publishes Essentials of Accounting
- Summer workshop series in Research in Business Finance, supported by Ford Foundation, begins
- Ted Levitt publishes Industrial Purchasing Behavior
- The HBS Club Presidents' Institute meets at HBS; attended by 26 club presidents seeking help in organizing events
- Three professors hired in the 1920s -- Neil Borden, Malcolm McNair, and Richard Meriam -- retire
- USDA asks HBS to develop a program to help extension personnel work with agricultural marketing firms
- Weatherhead Professorship, honoring inventor Albert Weatherhead, is established; Robert Livernash is named first incumbent (in 1965)
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