With 43 per cent of the incoming Harvard MBA class coming from humanities and social sciences disciplines, and a record 45 per cent women admitted to the Wharton School class of 2013, there are clear signs of progress.
It would be great to have an MBA class with a strong representation of people from the arts and humanities, but the reality is that an MBA student needs to be highly numerate.
Two world-class universities, Stanford and Berkeley, seeped in a balance of engineering and the humanities set the original stage out of which successful innovation emerged.