Introduction

Management Training Program students. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. TC 172-1-33

Second year MBA class with Diana C. Greer (MBA 1960) in front row and Roberta Moniz Lasley (MBA 1960) in back row, 1960. HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Student Life. Harvard Business School. olvwork380797

Management Training Program student Emily Cunningham completing field work, 1953. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. TC 172-2-10

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 integration of women into Harvard Business School (HBS) 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, faculty, and administrators 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.

Diana C. Greer (MBA 1960), Roberta Moniz Lasley (MBA 1960), Sara Beth Wilkinson (MBA 1960) on steps of Baker Library, 1959. HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Student Life. Harvard Business School. olvwork380793

Portrait of Joan Keenan, 1954. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. TC 172-4-30

Jane Clifton completing field work for the Harvard Radcliffe Program in Business Administration at John Hancock Investments. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. TC 172-6-31