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- HBS begins celebration of 75th anniversary with first in a series of research-oriented colloquia
- HBS receives 40,000 requests for MBA catalog, and more than 5,000 applications; raise admissions fee to $50 to reduce "casual applicants"
- $6 milllion renovation of Morris Hall is completed
- A $1.3 million fellowship fund is established honoring Robert Wood Johnson, Jr., former president of Johnson and Johnson
- A renovated Morris Hall reopens and Kresge Hall dining facilities are renovated
- Applications to MBA program decline 7 percent (from 6,100 to 5,700)
- Ardis Giffen, assistant placement director, retires after 37 years of service at HBS; is subsequently honored (in 1983) with the establishment of a $100,000 fellowship in her name
- Barbara Jackson publishes Multivariate Data Analysis
- David Garvin publishes "Quality on the Line" in HBR; subsequently wins McKinsey Award
- David Yoffie publishes Power and Protectionism
- Fran Henry (MBA '82) publishes Toughing it Out at Harvard
- Gordon Donaldson and Jay Lorsch publish Decision Making at the Top
- HBR editor Eliza Collins's article, "Managers and Lovers," generates national attention
- HBS Fund tops $6 million
- HBS discontinues role as international clearing house for cases written at other schools
- In an experiment aimed at "recapturing" the campus for pedestrians, HBS begins closing campus roads to automobiles
- John Quelch and Paul Farris publish Advertising and Promotion Management and Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management
- Joseph Bower publishes The Two Faces of Management
- Louis Wells publishes Third World Multinationals
- Matt Healey (MBA '64) establishes an HBS fellowship in his father's name
- McArthur writes about impending changes to faculty composition as challenge to HBS's "unique mission"
- Michael Porter is appointed by President Reagan to the Commission on Industrial Competitiveness
- Number of required credits in second-year MBA program is reduced from 11 to 10.5
- PCs are first used in the Program for Management Development as part of a joint HBS/IBM study of the uses of computers in management education
- Paul Lawrence and Davis Dyer publish Renewing American Industry
- Peter Timmer (with Falcon and Pearson) publishes Food Policy Analysis
- Ramchandran Jaikumar wins International Management Science Prize for his work in the theory and application of large-scale mathematical programs
- Robert Anthony publishes Tell it Like it Was
- Samuel Hayes, Michael Spence, and David Van Praag Marks publish Competition in the Investment Banking Industry
- Summer Venture in Management -- a program aimed acquainting minority college students with business and management education -- is offered for the first time
- Ted Levitt publishes "The Globalization of Markets" in HBR; helps popularize the globalization concept
- Ted Levitt publishes The Marketing Imagination
- Tiampo Chair, honoring Josefina and Jaime Chua Tiampo, is established; Stephen Fuller is named first incumbent (in 1984)
- Warren McFarlan and James McKenney publish Corporate Information Systems Management
- William Abernathy, Kim Clark, and Alan Kantrow publish Industrial Renaissance
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