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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
Fitzhugh's honor. Fitzhugh, who passed away in 1992, graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1931, despite being forced to live off-campus because of his race. He was one of the first African Americans... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
(AASU)—were each presented with the Hutchins Center’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (far right), director of the center. The medal is Harvard’s highest honor in the field of African and View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
interacted with it...I wanted to take the chapel and make it a public space." Bob Ryan: The funeral home was in a very rundown building. If you segment the African American market, you had people who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Marshall as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, five African American students arrived at HBS. What they encountered—a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
by the African American Student Union, the conference also featured panel discussions on the business community’s response to social injustice as well as the challenges and opportunities unique to View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
different ethnic groups in the country’s north, along with Indian, Chinese, European, and American expats. “My early exposure to people from diverse backgrounds is probably the reason I enjoy such environments,” says Oteh, who served for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reinventing perceptions of Africa through wine
winery Seven Sisters, produced the first South African wine served on American Airlines. The South African government helped to negotiate a land purchase for Seven Sisters,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
advancement of African Americans in the business world. "Being the first Fitzhugh professor is a particular honor," Thomas noted during a recent interview. "He spent much of his life trying to facilitate the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
Things may not have looked this bleak for African Americans in a long time, but at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead in eastern Long Island, which serves many of the area's black families -- including... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. She is also Harvard’s professor of History and of African and African American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
Photo courtesy of Beverly Anderson Photo courtesy of Beverly Anderson A recent study of alumni offers insights into the reality of the challenge that African American women face in their careers: Of the 532... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
Celebration Committee, "For our profile subjects, we're selecting HBSAAA alumnae who've been recommended by our members as women of the African diaspora who are making a difference in the world. It's been a revelation to learn more about... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training managers in the developing world
business school development, is creating a new social impact fund to finance manufacturing in Africa. He has taught at the Institute Supérieur de Management in Dakar, Senegal, and coauthored two books focusing on the progress of African... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
to his connection with Elkins, who was founding director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. She is also Harvard’s professor of History and of African and View Details
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
and his wife, Grammy Award-winner Alicia Keys, have acquired the largest private collection of Parks’ works. They’ve loaned 80 pieces to the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center for African and View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success
a 2016 report on corporate diversity, black men and women account for only 4.7 percent of executive team members in the Fortune 100, although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population. And... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
reason Americans view Africa as a land of misfortune is that all they hear about in the media is African misfortune. To counter this simplistic picture, Africa.com offers curated articles showing the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 28 May 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
PITCH PERFECT POWER SOURCE On March 8, Nina Bowman (MBA 1994) of Paravis Partners, former Johnson Publishing CEO Desirée Rogers (MBA 1985), and Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972) of the Wiley Group kicked off the 46th H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference, hosted by the View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Helping African Businesses Compete on the Global Stage Sheila Kyarisiima’s (MBA/MPA 2017) curiosity about building things, especially infrastructure, prompted the Kampala, Uganda, native to come to the United States in 2007 to study... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
archives One of the first African American graduates of HBS, the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh overcame numerous racial barriers in a career that spanned academia and the private sector. Born in Washington, DC, in... View Details