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- "Environmental Analysis for Management" course, retooled by Bruce Scott and John Rosenblum, is renamed "Business, Government, and the International Economy" by vote of faculty
- Fortune names Georges Doriot to its National Business Hall of Fame
- Henrietta Larson becomes first woman to receive Distinguished Service Award
- Since 1971, more than 2,000 trees have been planted on campus
- Byers Professorship, honoring banker and farmer Henry Byers (MBA '38), is established; Martin Marshall is named first incumbent
- Carter Professorship, honoring Edward W. Carter (MBA '37) is established; Ted Levitt is named first incumbent
- Charles Christenson publishes Public Management: Text and Cases
- HBS Club of India is established
- Howard Raiffa becomes embroiled in dispute caused by Wall Street Journal's report on his Competitive Decision Making elective
- Ken Andrews is named HBR editor
- Malcolm Salter and Wolf Weinhold publish Diversification Through Acquisition
- Michael Porter publishes "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" in HBR; subsequently wins McKinsey Award
- Quinn Mills publishes The Construction Industry
- Rene McPherson (MBA '52), former chairman of Dana Corporation, becomes fifth dean of Stanford Business School
- Richard Vancil publishes Decentralization
- Robert Lovett, curator of manuscripts and archives for 18 years, retires
- Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin publish Energy Future
- Roth Professorship of Retailing, honoring Stanley Roth, is established; Walt Salmon is named first incumbent (in 1980)
- The "Associates Fellows" program, aimed at helping graduating MBAs spend a year working with faculty on research, is established
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