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- Applications to MBA program rise 18% to 2,544
- C. Roland Christensen and Ken Andrews publish Business Policy: Text and Cases, a groundbreaking strategy text
- Women's Student Association (WSA) is organized
- "Tele-Case Discussions" are used to link faculty with executives in five U.S. cities
- 366 companies conduct 7,390 interviews with second-year students; 201 of those companies do not succeed in hiring
- 38 seminars are offered to HBS doctoral students (up from 1 in 1958)
- Albert Gordon (MBA '25) heads a new committee on major gifts
- Charles Christenson publishes Strategic Aspects of Competitive Bidding
- Dillon House, 1st new building since 1953, is dedicated
- Ford Foundation initiates supports 5-year "Multinational Enterprise Project," a research program headed by Ray Vernon
- George Bates, faculty member since 1925, retires
- Gund Professorship of Commercial Banking (2nd Gund chair at HBS) is established; Charlie Williams is named first incumbent (in 1966)
- HBR's paid circulation reaches 83,000 (up 11% in a year), and reprint orders from 22,470 individuals and businesses reach 678,100 (up 35%)
- Howard Raiffa, Robert Schlaifer, and John Pratt publish Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory
- James Healy publishes Creative Collective Bargaining
- Jay Lorsch publishes doctoral dissertation, Product Innovation and Organization
- John Dearden publishes Management Control Systems, which stays in print for decades
- John Pratt publishes "Risk Aversion in the Small and the Large" in Econometrica, which influences subsequent studies of risk; becomes editor of Journal of the American Statistical Research Association
- Neil Crone, "family physician" to HBS for a quarter-century, retires
- Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch publish Organizational Behavior and Administration
- Robert Anthony publishes Planning and Control Systems; takes leave to become Assistant Secretary of Defense; later receives DoD's "Medal for Distinguished Public Service"
- Second summer Workshop in Research in Business Finance is held on campus, and includes 20 researchers from other business schools
- Stepehen Greyser and Thomas Raymond initiate "Institute in Arts Administration," in collaboration with Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Walter Salmon publishes Product Profitability Measurement and Merchandise Decisions
- Winthrop Aldrich's papers are deposited in Baker Library
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