EPILOGUE
GENDER BALANCE SHEET
A Harvard Business School Case Study
In the introduction to this book, we referenced our involvement in the ongoing work to advance gender equity at our own institution, Harvard Business School (HBS). It’s not lost on us that HBS figures, in many respects, as a bastion of male leadership.1 Scores of the men, most of them white, who dominate the top ranks of business and other sectors are graduates of the school. The school has yet to be led by a female dean. Women students have not reached 50 percent of any MBA class. Only about a quarter of faculty members are women, and the school has tenured only two Black women in its history.2 We would be remiss to write about the barriers that working women face without ...
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