Baker Library
Historical Collections is pleased to join in the celebration of the 50th
anniversary of women’s admission into the full MBA program at Harvard Business
School (HBS) with Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at
Harvard University, 1937–1970. The exhibition will run until September 22,
2013 in the North Lobby, Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Harvard Business
School.
Building the
Foundation traces the
early history of business education for women at Harvard University from the
founding of the one-year certificate program at Radcliffe College in 1937 to
the HBS faculty vote to admit women into the two year MBA program and finally
to the complete integration of women into the HBS campus life by 1970. Illustrating
the evolution of this formative period are photographs, interviews, reports,
and correspondence from Baker Library Historical Collections at Harvard
Business School and from the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in
America at the Radcliffe Institute.
The telling
documents reveal how program directors, administrators, and faculty shaped
business education for women at the University, preparing students to take
their places in the business world. The pioneering graduates of these programs
would go on to help open doors to formerly unattainable opportunities for
generations of women who followed.
Visit http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wbe to learn more about the
exhibition, to find materials that could support further research, and to view
some of the items featured in the exhibition.
Visit http://www.hbs.edu/women50/ to learn more about the HBS
celebration of 50 Years of Women in the MBA Program.
Please contact
Baker Library Historical Collections at histcollref@hbs.edu if you would like to request a copy of
the exhibition catalog.
