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- David Klein, originally a member of Class of '48, completes MBA degree and graduates after 40-year career in government and nonprofit sectors; at age 68, becomes oldest graduating student on record
- Management guru Tom Peters's "Top 10" list of all-time best management books includes 6 HBS titles
- Student-edited Business Ethics Forum is launched
- 70 venture capitalists attend 2-day conference on challenges to their industry
- Amitai Etzioni publishes The Moral Dimension
- Charles Heckscher publishes The New Unionism
- Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal publish "Organizing for Worldwide Effectiveness" in California Management Review; subsequently win Pacific Telesis Foundation Award
- Class of '63 celebrates 25th reunion with all-time record gift of $5 million, earmarked to support Chris Christensen's program in effective teaching, and to endow a chair in his name
- D. Quinn Mills publishes Not Like Our Parents
- David Garvin publishes Managing Quality
- Doctoral programs hold second convocation (see 1982); some 200 graduates and guests attend
- Gifts from Harry E. Figgie (MBA '49) and Figgie International establish the Figgie Professorship
- HBR celebrates 65th anniversary; has more than 200,000 subscribers in 131 countries, and sells more than 2.5 million reprints annually
- HBS Executive Video Series is launched; first release is Michael Porter on Competitive Strategy
- HBS and National Alliance of Business form "Business/Education Leadership Project": a summer program in which MBA students study educational administration
- HBS hosts workshop for teachers trying to integrate ethics education into their curricula
- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld publishes The Hero's Farewell
- John Kotter publishes The Leadership Factor
- Joseph Badaracco and Richard Ellsworth publish Leadership and the Quest for Integrity
- Large-screen video displays are installed in all 1st-year MBA Aldrich classrooms
- Members of the Classes of '88 and '89 organize "Project Outreach," whereby 350 HBS volunteers contribute a day to one of more than 40 Boston-area community organizations
- Michael Dukakis and Rosabeth Moss Kanter publish Creating the Future
- Paul Lawrence serves as one of four directors of a cooperative U.S./U.S.S.R. project to develop guidelines for joint enterprises between the two countries
- Richard Walton publishes Innovating to Compete
- Robert Buzzell and Bradley Gale publish The PIMS Principles
- Robert Eccles and Dwight Crane publish Doing Deals
- Robert Hayes, Steven Wheelwright, and Kim Clark publish Dynamic Manufacturing
- Ronald Fox and James Field publish The Defense Management Challenge
- Shoshana Zuboff publishes In the Age of the Smart Machine
- Tom McCraw publishes The Essential Alfred Chandler
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