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- HBS and Harvard Law School establish the JD/MBA program: the School's first joint-degree program.
- Anna Spang, assistant librarian, retires; first HBS staff member to reach 50-year University service milestone
- Student unrest spreads across Harvard campus in spring, including HBS, but HBS students vote not to support a strike
- "Doriot Fund" is established to provide fellowships for foreign students
- "Time-shared" computer usage increases 140% (to about 8 hours) among first-year class
- Andrew Towl publishes To Study Administration by Cases
- Baker questions whether informal "requirement" that students have at least 2 years of work experience before entering MBA program be made formal
- Baker writes that "leadership potential" has always been an important admissions criterion
- Baker, concerned about the "undynamic" Trade Union Program, which has little interaction with rest of HBS, calls for a program review
- Dickinson Professorship, honoring accountant Arthur Dickinson, is established; Walter Frese is named first incumbent
- During Baker's tenure, number of chaired professorships has increased from 13 to 35
- Faculty votes to approve Baker's effort to increase minority applications to MBA program, and to admit "the greatest number consistent with the effective functioning of the program"
- First HBSA European conference is held (in Amsterdam)
- First-year sections reduced from 100 to 75 students, and first-year MBA class is "standardized" at 750 students
- Friends and former students of Georges Doriot establish a fellowship in his name to help foreign students at HBS
- Gordon Donaldson publishes Strategy for Financial Mobility
- HBS Club of Singapore is established
- HBS Fund raises more than $1 million for the first time
- HBS negotiates for 42,000 hours of "terminal time" for 1969-70 for same price as 20,000 hours in 1968-69
- Herbert F. Johnson Professorship of International Business Management is endowed; Ray Vernon is named first incumbent
- John Bishop is appointed first director of Harvard's Office of Information Technology; spends 2 years helping structure IT at Harvard
- Krannert Professorship, honoring manufacturer Herman Krannert, is established; John Dearden is named first incumbent
- Lawrence Thompson takes leave to serve as senior vice president of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates; develops environmentally sound solid-waste disposal system for big cities
- New HBS Clubs open in Milan, the Netherlands, Rhein-Ruhr, and Sweden; Geneva club becomes inactive
- Out of 91 participants in experimental AMP in summer of 1969, 89 return for second 6-week session
- PMD is shortened from 16 to 14 weeks
- Paul Cherington takes leaves to serve as Assistant Secretary in Department of Transportation
- Richard Dooley begins work on new executive education program aimed at owners of small businesses; launched (in 1972) as "Smaller Company Management Program"
- Robin Foote, MBA '69, becomes first female student to graduate at top of her class
- Smith Professorship, honoring Willard Prescott Smith, is established; Gordon Donaldson is named first incumbent
- Stephen Fuller becomes president of the Asian Institute of Management
- Ted Levitt publishes The Marketing Mode
- The 1907 Foundation Professorship of Distribution is established
- Wilbur England receives Shipman Gold Medal from National Association of Purchasing Management
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