Readers may have taken note of a long article by Jodi Kantor in the Sunday New York Times magazine celebrating an experiment on the Harvard Business School graduating class of 2013. Here’s a short version: Even though HBS admitted women with comparable grades and test scores to men, the women on the whole performed less well relative to men in the MBA program. The culprit was classroom participation, which accounts for 50% of the grade. The school’s famed case method required that students debate real life management situations, and women didn’t fare well there. Harvard president Drew Faust installed a new dean at HBS, Nitin Nohria, who promised to fix the problem.
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