HBS Prof: Case Studies Need Diversity — Now

Steven Rogers, entrepreneurial finance professor at HBS, estimates that fewer than 1% of HBS’ 10,000 or so studies feature a black executive as protagonist, or central decision-making figure, despite U.S. Census estimates that about 9% of U.S. companies are now black-owned. So he’s aiming to change that. Fed up with the uneven treatment, Rogers, who has taught at Harvard for five years, spent April to December last year co-authoring 14 new black executive-centered case studies, many of which have been taught this semester in his class Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship.