Lessons on Black Excellence in Business with Professor Steven Rogers

Retired HBS Professor Steven Rogers (HBS 1985), in conversation with entrepreneur and hotel executive Akilah Rogers (HBS 2009), discusses ways of helping Black-owned businesses access disaster funding from the federal government. We saw that many small businesses missed out on the first tranche of COVID-19 relief funds. Professor Rogers has tips for ensuring that the Black community receives its fair share of the newest $310 billion as well as for surviving overall the current economic and health crises.

Professor Steven Rogers of Harvard Business School (retired) speaks with Keeana Barber from Destined for Business Podcast, where he breaks down EXACTLY How Black Entrepreneurs can take advantage of the $320 Billion in business funding.

Movemeback Interviews Professor Steven Rogers. Movemeback is a members-only community, connecting overseas leaders, influencers, talent and organisations to unique, exclusive and exciting high potential opportunities on the African continent. We focus on distinctive and non-cliché opportunities from senior leadership roles with Africa’s most influential organisations through to unique investments, creative and entrepreneurial partnerships, nation shaping, social impact and more. We’re structured to enable talent relocation - including internships, secondments or remote engagements - and the facilitation of investment and advisory relationships. We're also focused on supporting the move to the continent through services, insights, content and access to a collaborative community.

Case studies are key to business school education. They're real life examples of major business challenges. Most of these case studies have been written by Harvard Business School professors. The school has some 10,000 case studies used all over the world. And the majority of them feature white business leaders.HBS professor Steven Rogers wants to change that — with new case studies that feature black business leaders.

For more than seven decades, "Ebony" magazine has chronicled the most important African-American issues, personalities, and interests of its time, including operating essentially as the journal of record for the civil rights movement. But along with most other media companies, the publication faced stark challenges to survive in the rapidly changing media landscape of 2015. Senior lecturer Steve Rogers discusses Ebony magazine’s storied history, including its founder’s awareness of disruption theory years ahead of time, and what the company has meant for the black community.

9:30"The Power of Entrepreneurial Pivoting" by Professor Steven Rogers - Ted Talk, 10/2/13

2:11In this short vingette created by Ivy, Professor Rogers shares on why he chose to create his course, Black Business Leaders & Entrepreneurship" at Harvard Business School and the impact it has had on both black and non-black students. Lessons from Legendary Black Business Leaders feat. Professor Steven S. Rogers, Dec. 2019

"The African American CEO of a money management firm publicly criticizes the Fortune 500 for paying lip service to diversity. His board urges him to stop. What should he do? Harvard Business School professor Steven Rogers and protagonist John Rogers discuss a new case study about the risks of speaking up, and the importance of black empowerment in the investment sector." - Cold Call Podcast, Black Business Leaders Series, Feb 13, 2018