Elaine Luthy and Michelle Turnovsky – two of the first women to be accepted into Harvard Business School in 1963. Eight women enrolled in the Business School that year, alongside 676 men.
Recalling the first group of women who entered in 1963, HBS Professor Wickham Skinner said, “The Admissions Department was told it had to be sure about them, there shouldn’t be more than a 5% chance of their failing. Those women were pretty darned good.”
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