Building the Foundation Bibliography
Batchelder, Mary B. and Frances M. Fuller. "Opportunities for Women at the Administrative Level," Harvard Business Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, January-February 1953. Full text available.
This article summarizes the findings of a study conducted for the Harvard Business School Division of Research committee reviewing the Radcliffe Management Training Program and focuses on the level of demand for women in administrative positions.
Batchelder, Mary B. and Frances M. Fuller. A Report on Job Opportunities for Women at the Administrative Level of Organization. [Boston: Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Division of Research], 1952. Full text available.
This report is based on a 1952 study by the Harvard Business School Division of Research surveying the demand for women executives in the United States labor market and executives' attitudes about the expanding role of women in business.
Bowman, Garda W., N. Beatrice Worthy, and Stephen Greyser. "Are Women Executives People?" Harvard Business Review, vol. 43, no. 4, July-August, 1965. Full text available. (Harvard users only)
Responding to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Harvard Business Review undertook a broad survey of the attitudes of 2,000 successful executives—half male, half female—toward the role of women in upper levels of management.
Business and Professional Women's Foundation. A Selected Annotated Bibliography : Women in Positions at Managerial, Administrative and Executive Levels. Washington, D.C.: The Foundation, 1966.
Business and Professional Women's Foundation. Women Executives: a Selected Annotated Bibliography. Washington, D.C: [1970].
Cussler, Margaret. The Woman Executive. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1958].
Famularo, Joseph J. "Women at the Top — the Record, the Obstacles, the Outlook," Journal of College Placement, April-May 1967. Reprinted in Management Review, August, 1967. Full text available. (Harvard users only)
Fillmore, Mary Dingee. Woman MBAs: A Foot in the Door. Boston: K. K. Hall & Co., 1987.
Gibson, Judith Spofford. "Bridging the Charles: The First Women Graduates of the Harvard Business School, 1960--1965." Drew University, 2009. Full text available. (Harvard users only)
This dissertation by a Harvard Business School alumna (HRPBA 1959, MBA 1965) identifies the first women graduates of HBS and examines why they selected graduate study in business administration.
Goodman, Natalie C., Tina T. Priebe, and Jacqueline B. Seaman. Career Development Survey of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration. [Cambridge, Massachusetts: Radcliffe Institute], 1975. Full text available.
Alumnae of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration constituted a pool of 1,200 subjects which Radcliffe Institute researchers drew from in their studies of women interested in developing careers and marketable skills in the period of 1938 to 1963.
Goodman, Natalie C. "Women and Management," Radcliffe Working Paper. Cambridge: Radcliffe Institute, 1975.
This survey and working paper look at the career development of graduates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, taking into account obstacles to employment, salary, and levels of responsibility.
"HBS Plans to Open Its Doors to Women," Wall Street Journal, May 13, 1959.
Hennig, Margaret. “The Managerial Woman.” Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.
One of the first women to receive her MBA from HBS, Margaret Hennig co-founded the Simmons Graduate School of Management with Anne Jardim with whom she also co-wrote “The Managerial Woman”. A study of successful women executives, the book became a New York Times bestseller.
Hobart, Christine. "Administrative Opportunities," Journal of College Placement, Vol. 21, February 1960.
This study, written by a Director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, surveyed graduates of the program and examined various factors pertaining to their career advancement.
[Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration]. "Is Graduate Training in Business Worthwhile?" Job Study of Graduates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration. [Cambridge, Mass.]: ca. 1956. Full text available.
Posing the "troublesome" question facing young women of the time—will graduate study in business be worth the time, money, and effort?—this study examines the experiences of the 664 graduates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration at the time of publication and concludes the answer to the original question is "yes."
Linden, Dana Weschsler. "The Class of '65," Forbes Magazine, July 4, 1994. Full text available. (Harvard users only)
This article profiles the first eight women admitted to the full MBA program and their experiences during the 30 years since their graduation.
Moss, Allyn. "Dear Campus Leader, What now?" Mademoiselle, 1958. Reprint.
Quick, Winifred Redden. "Graduate Training in Personnel Administration," Personnel Journal, vol. 16, no. 9, March 1938. Full text available. (Harvard users only)
While still a student in the first class to attend the Radcliffe College Training Course in Personnel Administration, Quick wrote this article describing the backgrounds of her four classmates, listing her professors, and explaining the curriculum and field work in detail.
Radcliffe College. Committee on the Management Training Program. Report of the Radcliffe College Committee on the Management Training Program. [Cambridge, Mass.]: The College, 1952. Full text available.
This 1952 report evaluates the entire Management Training Program "experiment" after enrollment dropped, the deficit increased, and a review of "the whole curriculum, the philosophy, and the administration of the course" was necessary.
Radcliffe College. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, Catalogues, 1956 - 1963, Cambridge: Radcliffe College.
Radcliffe College. Management Training Program, Catalogues 1946-1955. Cambridge: Radcliffe College.
Radcliffe College. Training Course in Personnel Administration, Catalogues, 1937-1945. Cambridge: Radcliffe College. Full text available. (1940-1941 only).
This catalogue describes the course as a practical education that coordinates theory and practice, including an analytical study of human behavior, coursework, and fieldwork. In addition to a partial list of course offerings, the catalogue includes admission requirements, tuition, fellowships, registration, calendars and living arrangements.
Roberts, Ragnhild J. A Short History of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration. [n.p. 1964].Full text available.
Associate Director of the Management Training Program from 1937 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1963, Ragnhild "Rags" Roberts presents a concise overview of the development and progress of business education for women at Harvard University from 1937 to 1963, including: a list of administrators; fieldwork; faculty, students, graduates, and alumnae; fellowships and other gifts; and advisory boards. It also features a brief references list.
Roethlisberger, Fritz J. The Elusive Phenomena: An Autobiographical Account of My Work in the Field of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.
Stokes, Mary Channing. “ ’Cliffe Has Business Course with Accent on Practicality,” The Harvard Crimson, October 19, 1950.
Stout, Lee. A Matter of Simple Justice: the Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women. University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, c2012.
United States. President's Commission on the Status of Women. American Women: Report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1963. Full text available.
Created in 1961 by an executive order from John F. Kennedy, the President's Commission on the Status of Women was formed to gather information on issues concerning women's rights. The Commission's issued its report on the status of women in 1963.