May 2021
Beginner
240 pages
5h 20m
English
Content preview from A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
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About the Author
STEVEN ROGERS retired from Harvard Business School in 2019 where he was the “MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer” in General Management. He taught entrepreneurial finance and his own course, “Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship.” Prior to HBS, Professor Rogers taught in the MBA and PhD programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he received the Outstanding Professor Award for the Executive MBA Program 26 times and the daytime program twice.
More recently, Rogers joined the Steans Family Foundation as an advisor to develop an economic plan for a poverty-stricken Black community in Chicago. In 2020, he toured 10 HBCUs, where he taught a workshop titled “Entrepreneurial Finance for Black Entrepreneurs.” He has also served on the board of directors of several corporations.
Named one of the top 150 influential people in America by Ebony magazine, Rogers is the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finance and Business and of multiple Harvard Business School case studies, as well as podcasts focused on Black business and financial issues.
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