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• 1980s

Also in 1984:

• First-year students in MBA program are required to purchase and use "portable" PCs (dubbed "luggables" by students).
• Policy pioneer and renowed case-method teacher C. Roland Christensen is named a "University Professor" (Harvard's highest academic honor) by President Derek Bok.
• 343 employers conduct 12,800 on-campus interviews; average graduating student has 14 interviews and gets 3 offers
• Thomas McCraw publishes Prophets of Regulation, which wins the Pulitzer Prize in 1985
• "HBS Press" is reestablished after a 15-year hiatus
• $4.5 million renovation to Mellon Hall is completed; former MBA dorm becomes PMD residence hall
• 11th Annual Business School Student Show spoofs HBS history
• 25% of graduating class are women
• 3 most popular fields for graduating students are consulting (19%), investment banking (18.9%), and high tech (11.7%)
• A working paper by Howard Stevenson -- "Who Are the Harvard Self-Employed? -- reveals that nearly half of HBS alumni consider themselves entrepreneurs, and almost half of those entrepreneurs are self-employed
• Bruce Scott and George Lodge publish U.S. Competitiveness in the World Economy
• Calvin Pava publishes Managing New Office Technology
• Christopher Lovelock publishes Services Marketing and (with Charles B. Weinberg) Marketing for Public and Nonprofit Managers
• Class of '59 makes record reunion gift of more than $1.5 million
• Class of 1958 Professorship is established
• Fellowship fund honoring D. George Sullivan (MBA '29) and totaling more than $150,000 is established
• First in a series of "Senior Executive Sessions" is held; aimed at helping highest-level executives with strategic challenges
• Fouraker Professorship, honoring HBS Dean Lawrence Fouraker, is established; Paul Vatter is named first incumbent
• George Lodge publishes The American Disease
• Gordon Donaldson publishes Managing Corporate Wealth
• HBS establishes a $100,000 fellowship in memory of longtime administrative operations staff member Daniel Sullivan
• Harry Hansen is honored by Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona for his contributions
• Indonesian Institute for Management Development opens with assistance from Harry Hansen, Robert Anthony, and Louis Wells
• Industrial Bank of Japan Professorship is established; Thomas Piper is named first incumbent
• International Senior Managers Program relocates to Soldiers Field; is renamed SMP
• Malcolm Salter, Chris Christensen, and Norman Berg publish Policy Formation and Administration
• Michael Beer (with Spector, Mills, Walton, and Lawrence) publishes Managing Human Assets
• Michael Spence is named dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Norman Berg publishes General Management
• Paul Lawrence (with Beer, Spector, Mills, and Walton) publishes Managing Human Assets
• Quinn Mills and Janice McCormick publish Industrial Relations in Transition
• Ramchandran Jaikumar publishes paper -- "Computers in Transportation" -- that subsequently wins the E. Grosvenor Plowman Award
• Richard Vietor publishes Energy Policy in America Since 1945
• Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright publish Regaining our Competitive Edge
• Robert Stobaugh and Louis Wells publish Technology Crossing Borders
• The Stanley Roth, Sr. Charitable Trust makes a $1.5 million gift in support of HBS doctoral students
• Thomas Bonoma and Benson Shapiro publish Segmenting the Industrial Market
• Warren McFarlan publishes The Information Systems Research Challenge
• William Abernathy, 50, dies of cancer; is honored with the establishment of a research endowment
• With encouragement and help from Alonzo McDonald, Jr. (MBA '56), HBS inaugurates "Senior Executive Session" for current or former CEOs

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