Slow progress on race hampers business school diversity push
Steven Rogers presents a single nuance to his scathing critique of attempts by Harvard Company University and many others to step up their coaching of black managers in the US: “No school was much better [than Harvard] and all of them have been awful.”
Rogers give up the Harvard college as a senior lecturer in finance in 2019, right after sensation “heavy disappointment” with the school’s sluggish progress on diversity, and has because taught his possess black business leadership and entrepreneurship classes throughout the US.
He would like to see more outreach and support programmes at business faculties to enable recruit and keep students and staff increased manufacturing and use of compulsory case experiments with black protagonists and — more radically — immediate financial investment by college endowments in black-owned corporations.
His sentiments replicate broader frustrations by below-represented teams searching for entry to business education: