Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria publicly apologised for the school's treatment of female students and professors before 600 alumni and guests at a recent event honouring the School’s alumnae for their impact on business and the community.
Nohria told the crowd that women at Harvard felt 'disrespected, left out, and unloved by the school', and vowed to make changes at the institution. The School has recently faced scrutiny following a lengthy article in The New York Times that detailed how female students and faculty allegedly faced a grading bias and other incidents of sexism.
At the event, Nohria stated, “I'm sorry on behalf of the business school. The school owed you better, and I promise it will be better." He pledged to more than double the number of female protagonists in Harvard case studies over the next five years and noted that 41% of this year's entering class of MBAs were women, up from just 25% in the class of 1985.
Paul Arkwright
Publisher
