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• 2 A Giant Step: The Training Course in Personnel Administration, 1937-1945
• 3 Broadened Horizons: The Management Training Program, 1946-1955
• 4 Transition: The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration 1956-1963
• 5 Co-education: Women and Men at Harvard Business School, 1963-1970
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I did have more confidence, and I did try other fields....The discipline of the WAC program helped me with the doctoral program later...in writing my doctoral dissertation.

Betsy Jaffe
HRPBA 1962

Betsy Jaffe is founder and president of Career Continuum, a New York career consulting firm, and author of Altered Ambitions: What’s Next in Your Life (published, 1991). After HBPBA she went on to get her Ed.D at Columbia University. She started her career in retail as a department store buyer, and has used her experiences to consult, teach, and write on career management issues. Betsy Jaffe also worked for Catalyst, a nonprofit research and advisory organization that strives to build inclusive environments and expand opportunities for women and business.

Interview by Barbara Rimbach, March 27, 2000. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

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