Harvard Business School Looks To Diversify Its Case Studies With More Black Executives
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.
Only 2 of the 300 Case Studies Read by First-Year Harvard Business School Students Include Black Executives
Less than 1 percent of the 10,000 case studies published by Harvard Business School feature black business leaders, said Steven Rogers, a former lampshade manufacturing executive who is teaching the course — even though black-owned businesses represent 9 percent of all U.S. firms.
Harvard Business School Makes a Case for Diversity
They are arguably the most influential reference works in the field of business management: Harvard Business School’s case studies. Yet as central as these case studies are at Harvard and business schools around the country, they’ve been missing a key element, according to Steve Rogers, a senior lecturer on entrepreneurial finance at Harvard Business School: the stories of African-American executives.