MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Steven Rogers is the MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration.
He teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course titled Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship. He taught FIELD 3, which is the practicum on entrepreneurship where 150 teams of students create companies each year. HBS Faculty Profile.
When Steven Rogers was a graduate student at Harvard Business School (HBS),
he couldn’t help but notice how little he was learning about black leaders in the business world. Now a senior lecturer on entrepreneurial finance at HBS, Rogers is working to change that with the course he’s now teaching, “Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship.”
The course has already brought some big-name entrepreneurs to speak to Rogers’ students. Rogers says that black entrepreneurs are the “hidden figures” of the business world. “Even during slavery, you had people like James Forten, a slave whose owner allowed him to start a company making sails for ships. He created his own company and bought freedom for his family. After slavery, blacks found that entrepreneurship was an important tool, a means by which they could seek wealth. After the Civil War, the collective wealth of the black business community was today’s equivalent of $50 million.”
Currently, Rogers says, the black community is seeing a similar boom in entrepreneurship —
Tune in: Course focuses on case studies of black business leaders.Course focuses on case studies of black business leaders
When Steven Rogers was a graduate student at Harvard Business School (HBS), he couldn't help but notice how little he was learning about black leaders in the business world. Now a senior lecturer on entrepreneurial finance at HBS, Rogers is working to change that with the course he's now teaching, "Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship."
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