Harvard Business School really wants more female students

None of America's top business schools have ever boasted graduating classes with at least 50 percent female students. But Harvard Business School hopes to change that.

Harvard has created a recruiting program called Peek, which targets juniors, seniors, and recent graduates from women's colleges. Peek will allow 50 to 70 prospective Harvard Business School students to stay on campus for a weekend in June and discuss four case studies with the school's professors. The program also offers networking opportunities with current students and alumni.

The class of 2016 at Harvard Business School was 41 percent female, but the school hopes to increase that figure. Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School, also pledged last year that at least 20 percent of the school's case studies will feature female protagonists, and all of the case studies analyzed during Peek will do so.

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