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• 1980s

Also in 1982:

• "Non-Profit Management Fellowships Program" is established, offering stipends to students taking non-profit summer jobs
• Abstracts of all HBR articles become available through computerized databases; HBR moves to electronic typesetting
• Howard Stevenson (MBA '65, DBA '69) is named first incumbent of Sarofim-Rock Chair; begins reinvigoration of HBS's entrepreneurship curriculum
• In response to study showing first-year MBA required reading has grown from 5,500 to 9,800, faculty votes to reduce weekly total of classes from 15 to 13, to improve student preparation and attitude
• C. Roland Christensen publishes Teaching by the Case Method
• Chase Hall is renovated and becomes a PMD residence hall
• Class of 1957 Professorship is established
• First extensive restoration of Baker's main reading room is undertaken
• George Yip publishes Barriers to Entry
• HBS Club of Chile (third South American club) is organized
• HBS Fund sets all-time record of $6.7 million
• Helen Cauchon retires after 44 years with HBS Case Services and predecessor entities
• Howard Raiffa publishes The Art and Science of Negotiation, which subsequently wins the Leo Melamed Prize
• John Kotter introduces Power and Influence elective
• John Kotter publishes The General Managers
• Leonard Schlesinger publishes Quality of Work Life and the Supervisor
• Richard Tedlow is named editor of Business History Review
• Robert Hayes and David Garvin publish "Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered" in HBR; later win McKinsey Award
• School stops accepting applications from students taking Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) in March, due to low admissions rate
• Some 200 HBS doctoral alumni convene at HBS to celebrate 60th anniversary of establishment of first HBS doctoral program
• Vijay Sathe publishes Controller Involvement in Management

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