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• 1990s
• Porter, Michael Eugene

Also in 1990:

• Entering MBA class is 21% international (up 5% from previous year); highest international percentage in HBS history
• Following fall of Berlin Wall, HBS hosts 50 student and faculty guests from former Eastern Bloc nations
• A memorial fund honoring Howard Whitmore (MBA '64), former HBS administrator, is established
• A record 36 students take part in Nonprofit Management Fellowship Program, supported by alumni and $20,000 from annual student fund drive
• Alfred Chandler publishes Scale and Scope; subsequently wins Association of American Publishers' Knisely Award for best book on business and management, and the Leo Melamed Prize for outstanding scholarship by a business professor
• Carl Kester publishes Japanese Takeovers
• Dennis Encarnation publishes Dislodging Multinationals
• Four students from U.S.S.R. enroll in MBA program (first in post-World War II era)
• George Lodge publishes Perestroika for America
• HBS and four other leading business schools sponsor Central and Eastern European Teachers Program, aimed at bringing 120 Eastern-bloc scholars to U.S. executive education programs within 2 years
• HBS conducts its first management program in U.S.S.R, in conjunction with the Institute for External Economic Affairs
• James Austin publishes Managing in Developing Countries
• James Heskett, Earl Sasser, and Christopher Hart publish Service Breakthroughs
• John Kotter publishes A Force For Change
• John Quelch, Robert Buzzell, and Eric Salama publish The Marketing Challenge of 1992
• Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, and Bert Spector publish The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal; subsequently win Association of American Publishers' Knisely Award for new perspectives on executive leadership
• Michael Porter publishes The Comparative Advantage of Nations
• Paul Lawrence and Charalambos Vlachoutsicos publish Behind the Factory Walls
• Richard Hackman publishes Group That Work (and Those That Don't)
• Richard Rosenbloom publishes 4th volume in his Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy series
• Richard Tedlow publishes New and Improved
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter becomes editor of HBR
• Students organize HBS Environmental Club; subsequently persuade HBS Publishing to use recycled paper for most case materials
• William Bruns publishes "The Dangerous Morality of Managing Earnings" in Management Accounting; subsequently wins Lybrand Gold Medal from National Association of Accountants

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