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A study shows that 43.9% of the Class of '37 own their firms, while 15.8% of the Class of '67 own theirs; Fouraker concludes that HBS graduates are a "major entrepreneurial stream" in the U.S. economy
A total of 758 new cases are written, representing a "major renewal" of the teaching-program content
Class of '77 includes 152 women (up from 27 in 1969), 55 minorities (down from 74), 157 foreign students (up from 104), and 494 "U.S. men" (up from 477)
Abraham Zaleznik publishes "Managers and Leaders: Are they different?", in HBR
At urging of Richard Rosenbloom, Director of Division of Research, HBS establishes a Post Doctoral Fellowship Program, aimed at bringing new types of researchers to HBS
Between 1969 and 1977, tuition rises from $2,000 to $4,400, while median starting salary rises from $14,00 to $22,000
Chapman Professorship, honoring banker Richard Chapman (MBA '27), is established; Philip Thurston is named first incumbent
David Hawkins wins Graham and Dodd Scroll from the Financial Analysts Journal for his study of the use of cash flow data by investors
Endowment reaches $56.3 million (up from $25.5 million in 1969)
Faculty generate 29 books, 157 articles, and 40 working papers
George Lombard -- a member of the faculty since 1940, a founding member of the Human Relations group, and a key faculty administrator -- retires
HBS Clubs open in Barcelona and Singapore
Harry Hansen retires; becomes dean of Institut pour l'Enseignement des Methodes de Direction de l'Entreprise (IMEDE) in Lausanne
Harvard cases account for 88% of the sales of the Intercollegiate Case Clearing House
Jay Light takes 2-year leave to serve as Ford Foundation's director of investment and financial policies
Jesse Markham, Tony Hourihan, and Francis Sterling publish Horizontal Divestiture and the Petroleum Industry
John Kotter receives Exxon Award for innovation in graduate business school curriculum design for his Self-Assessment and Career Development elective
Robert Anthony and Regina Herzlinger receive the American College of Healthcare Executives' Hamilton Award for their book, Management Control in Nonprofit Organizations
Social psychologist Raymond Bauer, a pioneer in applying behavioral sciences to business administration and a 20-year veteran of the HBS faculty, dies at age 60
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42% of graduating class goes into manufacturing, with consulting, commercial banking, and investment banking each claiming 10%
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