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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
striptease parties; male faculty would occasionally and good-naturedly attribute female faculty members' teaching ratings to their physical features. It didn't really bother me, to be honest, and I settled quite happily into my own View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
CD will be donated to help end domestic violence. Respond II features 32 female artists, half of whom were nominated for Grammy Awards and all of whom donated their work to the project. It came together with the help of HBS research... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019
last two years: “(O)ver 35 new female general partners were added in 2018; 200 female venture capitalists and founders delivered more than 1,000 hours of mentorship; upwards of 1,000 founders pledged their... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
the news network for suggesting that black females would cast votes based on gender or race rather on candidates' political platforms. During that same period, Oprah Winfrey endorsed Obama for president, angering many of her View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
Center for Entrepreneurship. Rachel credits her connection with Austin as the biggest influence in her journey to becoming a Founder. Austin became a mentor, which she remains today, introducing her to “Good for Her,” a cohort of female... View Details
Beatrice F. Auerbach
In 1938, when Auerbach became president of G. Fox & Company, it is almost certain that she was the only female president of a major department store in the U.S. Auerbach was a pioneer in a number of fair employment practices,... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 30 Jul 2024
Top Business Schools Discuss: Women in Business
Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to learn about their MBA programs and the experience of female students in business school and beyond. The event will feature a... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
Top Business Schools Discuss: Women in Business
Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to learn about their MBA programs and the experience of female students in business school and beyond. The event will feature a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
to our office,” she explains. As a student at HBS, Khan decided to figure out a way to help female entrepreneurs access venture capital. In the summer of 2015, with support from the Rock Summer Fellows program, she started an accelerator,... View Details
Maggie L. Walker
that, though their savings were small, blacks could still create financial stability for themselves. The bank served not only as a depository of funds and a discount mortgage lender, particularly for women, but also as an employer of a large number of community... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- Profile
Monica Dodi
decade. Even though women start businesses at twice the rate of men, their access to capital has been limited, says Dodi, who launched WVCF with fellow HBS alumna Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985) and with the support of female HBS... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs
decade. Even though women start businesses at twice the rate of men, their access to capital has been limited, says Dodi, who launched WVCF with fellow HBS alumna Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985) and with the support of female HBS... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
2011, using cooperative and competitive scenarios in which participants performed both a verbal and a math test at Harvard Business School's Computer Lab for Experimental Research. Each participant was given a pseudonym, with women receiving obviously View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom at Business School
Alice Liu (MBA 2021) is originally from Beijing, China and moved to Canada when she was 11. She went to WashU in St.Louis, and worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan where she covered technology companies from SF and NYC offices. Alice is starting her own View Details
- Portrait Project
Maliha Khan
voraciously on a variety of topics. Even more unusually, she was a force to be reckoned with, a woman who wore the pants in the house in an era in which most females were taught to be submissive and yielding. Although I have received... View Details
Rose Totino
frozen pizza business in 1962 just as frozen foods were gaining national prominence. Totino’s business grew rapidly, and she sold it to Pillsbury in 1975 for $22 million. Totino was named the first female vice president at Pillsbury, and... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
women." Marlis Krichewsky presented an interesting hypothesis when she classified male and female managers in three groups: those who conform to the gender role model, those who imitate the role model of the other gender, and those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
while at HBS, sparked by a case she coauthored with Professor Geoffrey Jones on female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells the true story of an entrepreneurial young woman succeeding in Taliban-ruled... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
this June. His caption to this Instagram photo? “Big business minus the business suit.” June’s PEEK Weekend—a new HBS recruiting effort—introduced 125 female college students and recent graduates to business and HBS, including case... View Details
Keywords: Dwyane Wade
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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
Endowment 5,398 5,132 5,086 5,265 4,092 Total Assets $ 6,942 $ 6,639 $ 6,603 $ 6,755 $ 5,558 MBA 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 Incoming Class Applications 9,856 8,149 8,264 9,773 9,304 Percent Admitted 12% 14% 15% 13% 13% Yield 85% 87% 86% 87% 85% Gender Male 55% 55% 54% —... View Details