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- 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
- 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
- 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
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