Sixty years ago, the all-male faculty at Harvard Business School voted to allow women to apply to … [+] the full-time MBA program. Today 46% ofthe MBA classare women (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Business schools, and their portfolio of MBA, Masters and executive programmes are a powerful career accelerator, often enabling their graduates to subsequently take on senior leadership roles. So is the diversity and talent mix of the MBA classroom a solid indicator for future trends in the C-Suite?
Sixty years ago, the all-male faculty at Harvard Business School voted to allow women to apply to the full-time MBA program. Eight women were accepted in the following admissions cycle, and began their studies in August 1963.
By 2004, 35% of the HBS MBA class were women. The same year, the proportion of leadership roles held by females worldwide stood at 19%,…
