Title: Building the foundation
Description: "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. A selection of photographs, interviews, reports, and correspondence documents 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.
Subjects: Businesswomen, Education, Exhibitions, Professional education of women, Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Places: Massachusetts, Cambridge