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1981
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1980s
Lao, Yuan-Li
Also in 1981:
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"
HBS identifies entrepreneurial alumni as "an important, relatively untouched resource for the School"
"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
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Timeline: 1981
Yuan-Li Lao, first MBA candidate from People's Republic of China, enrolls
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