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.

For more information about Baker Library Historical Collections visit
www.library.hbs.edu/hc/<file:///C:\Users\llinard\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\2B0AGTLA\www.library.hbs.edu\hc\>.