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- 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
- Faculty votes to establish joint Ph.D. program in decision sciences
- 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
- 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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