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- Faculty votes to include new course, Human Resource Management, in required first-year curriculum
- HBS engages Arthur D. Little to investigate feasibility of resuming an "active publishing program"
- "Dean's Doctoral Fellowships" are established; aimed at helping qualified graduating students (and recent HBS graduates) prepare for academic career in business administration
- Abraham Zaleznik and C. Roland Christensen visit Japan and meet with Japanese industrialist Konosuke Matsushita
- Anthony Athos and Richard Pascale publish The Art of Japanese Management
- Division of Research initiates Case Workshop Series to instruct younger professors and research assistants in case-based research
- Fayez Sarofim and Arthur Rock (both MBA '51) establish the Sarofim-Rock Chair
- Florence Glynn, admissions and financial-aid staffer for more than four decades, retires; is honored (in 1983) with the establishment of an endowed fellowship in her name
- HBS Clubs established in India and Israel
- HBS identifies $70 million in deferred campus maintenance
- HBS receives a refurbished 50-year-old brass and mahogany trading post from the New York Stock Exchange
- HBS signs agreement with publisher Wiley to distribute HBR anthology series
- Internal case-publishing enterprise--which in 1980-81 shipped 100 million pages to 6,000 customers around the world, but lost money--shifts to computer-based fulfillment
- John Meyer and Jose Gomez-Ibanez publish Autos, Transit and Cities
- John Meyer publishes Airline Deregulation
- Kestnbaum Professorship, honoring clothier Meyer Kestnbaum (MBA '21), is established; to be shared between HBS and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Matsushita Professorship, honoring Konosuke Matsushita, is established; Abraham Zaleznik (in 1983) is named first incumbent
- Michael Spence wins the American Economics Association's John Bates Clark Medal
- On-campus reunion presentations are upgraded to include "serious classroom presentations"
- Robert Miles publishes Coffin Nails and Corporate Strategies
- Thomas McCraw publishes Regulation in Perspective
- William Abernathy, Kim Clark, and Alan Kantrow publish "The New Industrial Competition" in HBR; later win the 1981 McKinsey Award
- William Poorvu is appointed HBS's first adjunct professor
- Yuan-Li Lao, first MBA candidate from People's Republic of China, enrolls
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