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- Class of '20 holds the first-ever 65th HBS reunion, attended by 5 of 11 surviving classmates
- Harry Hansen receives Benjamin Franklin Medal from Britain's Royal Society of Arts for his contributions to Anglo-American understanding, and is elected Corresponding Member of Spain's Royal Academy of Science, Economics, and Finance for contributions to management in Spain and elsewhere
- Renowned child psychiatrist Robert Coles brings his Moral and Social Inquiry Through Fiction course -- taught at multiple Harvard schools -- to second-year program
- Anderson House is renovated; is first building wired for local area network and equipped with PCs
- As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, Morgan Stanley establishes minority fellowship program at HBS
- Benson Shapiro, Robert Dolan, and John Quelch publish Marketing Management, an 8-component teaching package including text, software, and video
- Bower Fellows Program, honoring Marvin Bower (MBA '30), is established with a $2 million gift from McKinsey & Company to support research by outstanding scholars
- Class of '49 raises $1.25 million to create new professorship
- Class of '54 raises $1.25 million to endow a professorship
- Class of '60 raises $1.75 million and creates professorship
- Dutch and Norwegian editions of HBR are launched, increasing to 10 the total of foreign-language editions of HBR
- Ernest Frawley, longtime HBR publisher, dies
- Faculty team, led by Thomas McCraw and Colyer Crum, participate in Japanese symposium on comparative business-government relationships in the U.S. and Japan
- Formal executive education reunions debut in spring; nearly 700 people attend
- HBS case-related software is made available for purchase outside School for the first time
- John Kotter publishes Power and Influence
- John Matthews, Kenneth Goodpaster, and Laura Nash publish Policies and Persons
- John Pratt and Richard Zeckhauser publish Principals and Agents
- Joseph Badaracco publishes Loading the Dice
- Lorna Daniells, Baker bibliographer, is honored by the Special Libraries Association for "outstanding contributions"
- Michael Porter publishes Competitive Advantage; subsequently wins Academy of Management's Terry Book Award
- Quinn Mills publishes The New Competitors
- Regina Herzlinger and Jeffrey Schwartz publish two-part HBR article, "How companies tackle health care costs"; subsequently win American College of Healthcare Executives' Dean Conley Award
- Renovations to Kresge, Aldrich, and Cotting Halls are completed
- Richard Walton and Paul Lawrence publish HRM Trends and Challenges
- Robert Buzzell publishes Marketing in an Electronic Age
- Robert Eccles publishes The Transfer Pricing Problem
- Samuel Hayes and Ray Goldberg address Davos conference
- Smaller Company Management Program is renamed "Owner/President Management Program"
- Ted Levitt is named editor of HBR
- Thomas Bonoma publishes The Marketing Edge
- Two books documenting HBS's role in industrial sociology -- Richard Trahair's The Humanist Temper and George Homans's Coming to My Senses -- are published
- Two relatively young faculty members -- Daryl Wyckoff and William White -- die in the same week in January
- Wickham Skinner publishes Manufacturing: the Formidable Competitive Weapon
- William Sahlman first offers "Entrepreneurial Finance" elective
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- Institutional Growth & Lifestyle
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- Programs
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