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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The School has come a long way toward gender equity since then, with women making up 41 percent of the Class of 2015. But a recent case study... View Details
Business of Emerging Markets
100 interviews with top business leaders from emerging markets available for download. I have also accessed the plentiful resources of Baker Library as well as the larger Harvard ecosystem, including new archival material on female... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies, View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
Protagonists Melissa Wong Bethell (MBA 1999) remembers reading only a handful of cases featuring female protagonists when she was a student at HBS. While those numbers have increased dramatically in recent years, she hopes more cases with... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the two-year MBA Program for the first time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The School has... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Laura A. Liswood (MBA '76) is cofounder and secretary-general of the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL), an independent, international organization based at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Made up of many of the world's current and former View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Apr 2019
- News
Alvarez-Bjelland to Receive Harvard Medal
receive her medal during May’s Commencement Day activities. The Harvard Gazette announcement notes that she was awarded Radcliffe College’s highest undergraduate honor and served as a resident tutor at Kirkland House while earning her MBA. “The first View Details
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Kendall Brinker
Kendall Brinker is driven by a passion for the auto industry. Although her university was "overwhelmingly male," she found a great number of female colleagues who shared her enthusiasm in the Industrial Engineering program.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
example, is one where people are pushing me to understand the reason why, when a female has a female manager, they don’t end up spending more time together the way men do with their male managers. I would... View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
women from advancing and make their work lives uncomfortable. In my experience, Damore’s assertions don’t match the reality in today’s corporate environment. Having worked with female CEOs under enormous pressure, such as General Motors’... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Web
Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
female founders are married or partnered at rates similar to the overall alumni population. The proportion of female tech founders with children under 18 at home (55%) is slightly higher than that of male... View Details
- Web
Professor Claudia Goldin on "Why Women Won" - Blog: RGE Report
Challenging Conventional Wisdom 08 Mar 2025 Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism? 11 Sep 2024 Faculty Spotlight: HBS Racial Equity Fellow Professor Ivuoma N. Onyeador 08 Mar 2025... View Details
- Portrait Project
Nana Quagraine
overcame my anger and developed friendships with students of all colors. By doing so, I made some of my peers more willing to interact in a multi-racial community. By becoming the first black female engineering graduate at this... View Details
- 15 Apr 2016
- News
First African American Woman to Receive Harvard MBA Talks Power of Persistence, Resilience, and Courage
(Image: Cathy Walsh) (Image: Cathy Walsh) The first African American woman to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School, Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) attended the School at a time when women weren’t allowed to live on campus. Instead, she and her few View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Creating Change
(HBS Archives Photographs: Student Life) In 1970, there were no female members of the Harvard Club of New York City, and women entered the club through a separate entrance. Alumna Roslyn Payne (MBA 1970) and her classmates were determined... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Louise Bourgeois Eye Benches II 1996-1997 | About
quality of your eyes and the strength of your eyes that are expressed here. Nobody is going to keep me from seeing what is instead of what I would like.” In 1982, Bourgeois was the first female artist to have a retrospective at New York’s... 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
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit
mourning the "death of credit," depicted as a human corpse, scold the viewer for destroying the trust on which economic exchange is founded-and suggest that the blanket condemnation of credit was more complicated in practice than in theory. The View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details