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Also in 1983:

• The HBS faculty and Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences vote to establish new joint Ph.D.s in organizational behavior and decision sciences.
• 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"
• 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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