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1972
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1970s
White, Mary
Also in 1972:
The Smaller Company Management Program (SCMP), designed for the owners and managers of small businesses, is launched.
Total enrollment in HBS programs reaches 2,583 (up from 1,705 in 1960) and faculty reaches 180 (up from 105 in 1960)
African-American Student Union hosts first annual career and alumni conference
At request of AID and State Department, Ray Goldberg organizes first agribusiness seminar focused on food systems in developing world
Bruce Scott recasts Environmental Analysis for Management course as a series of distinctive national perspectives
Cassserly Professorship, honoring investor Thomas Casserly, Jr.; Keith Butters is named first incumbent (in 1973)
Due to financial concerns, case-writing budget is cut from $1.85 million in '70-'71 to $1.41 million in '72-'72, but only two fewer field cases are written
Due to financial concerns, computer expenses are cut by $200,000
Earl Sasser introduces first HBS elective on management of service operations
Fouraker (with the help of Colyer Crum) begins multi-year effort to reduce the number of "short private programs" on campus, to be replaced by School-sponsored programs
Fouraker announces intention to "arrest" the growth of the HBS faculty
George Bates publishes Byzantine Coins
HBS Clubs open in Argentina and Australia
Hugo Uyterhoeven publishes "General Managers in the Middle" in HBR
Iran Center for Management Studies (ICMS), designed in part by HBS faculty, opens
Microfilming of two original Foxwell collections and 17,000 additional titles in Kress Library begins
North European Management Institute (NEMI) opens near Oslo, the result of 8 years of work by 3 Norwegian HBS alumni, Norm Berg, and other HBS faculty
Quinn Mills publishes Industrial Relations and Manpower in Construction
Sarnoff Professorship, honoring communications executive David Sarnoff, is established; Richard Rosenbloom is named first incumbent
Stephen Greyser becomes executive director of the HBS-affiliated Marketing Science Institute
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Timeline: 1972
Mary White, on staff since 1927 and head of Case Book Production, retires; during her tenure, output increased from several thousand pages per year to 15 million
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