Contact the WSA 2008-2009 Board The Facts
The Harvard Business School (HBS) has been a pre-eminent business school for women since 1938, when the first two female graduates completed the Harvard Radcliffe Program on Business Administration on the Radcliffe campus. Since then, 9,100 women have completed the MBA, and Executive Education Programs, including 6,800 who have earned the MBA degree on the HBS campus since 1965.
Through membership in the Forté Foundation, HBS has taken an active leadership role in helping to increase women’s access to business education, mentoring and networking opportunities. Forté Forum events compliment the HBS-led women outreach initiatives that have been undertaken during the last decade.
Women are a strong leadership presence on the HBS campus. Our alumnae are also taking an active leadership role in the world broadly and in shaping the terms of success in the world around us. Women represent 37% of the MBA Class of 2009.
“It's important to have all kinds of people in leadership roles in every sector. Women are often underrepresented in leadership roles in society, and therefore the world is cheated of the diverse perspectives of an entire set of the population.”
—Courtney Kelso, Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2005
