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- Unexpectedly high "yield" rate of 88% leads to largest entering class (826) in HBS history; class also has highest percentage (24%) of international students
- 33% of graduating class go into manufacturing sector; highest percentage since 1981
- Benjamin (MBA '33) and Lililan Hertzberg endow the Hertzberg Professorship; Shoshana Zuboff is named first incumbent
- C. Roland Christensen, David Garvin, and Ann Sweet publish Education for Judgment
- Caldwell Professorship, honoring Ford executive Philip Caldwell (MBA '42), is established; Robert Hayes is named first incumbent
- Class of '56 earmarks its $1.5 million reunion gift for creation of an executive program for older alumni; result (in 1993) is Age of Options program
- Colman Mockler (MBA '54), CEO of Gillette, dies; the Joanna and Colman M. Mockler, Jr., Financial Aid Fund is created in his memory
- Enrollment in entrepreneurial electives approaches 1,500
- Frank Cespedes publishes Organizing and Implementing the Marketing Effort
- Gipp Ludcke (MBA '25) and his wife make generous gift to HBS; Alumni House (former Faculty Club) is renamed in their honor
- HBS and Xerox begin multi-year effort, headed by Director of Cases Judy Uhl, to put School's 7,000-plus active cases on line
- Kim Clark and Takahiro Fujimoto publish Product Development Performance
- MBA classes are suspended for an afternoon in May for in-depth consideration of AIDS in the workplace
- Malcolm Smith (MBA '28) leaves $200,000 bequest to honor Marvin Bower (MBA '30) and Grant Keehn (MBA '23)
- More than half of members of Class of '89 contribute to Nonprofit Management Fellowship Program fund
- Neil Rudenstine is installed as Harvard's 26th president
- Pankaj Ghemawat publishes Commitment
- Quinn Mills publishes Rebirth of the Corporation
- Regina Herzlinger publishes Creating New Health Care Ventures
- Robin Cooper and Robert Kaplan publish The Design of Cost Management Systems
- Two teams of MBA students, all members of Class of '91, receive Uhlmann Award for outstanding research projects in agribusiness
- With funding from Teresa Heinz, Richard Vietor and Forest Reinhardt begin developing teaching materials on environmental issues
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