Webinar Archive - A Conversation with Steven Rogers on A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You can Do now to Help the Black Community
In this webinar, the Forum staff will talk with Steven Rogers, an independent director on the Oakmark Funds board and former Harvard Business School professor, about his book A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You can do Now to Help the Black Community. It is a “call to action” that focuses on solutions to the country’s racial challenges. Steven’s thesis is that the root cause of the black-white racial problems, is the racial wealth disparity. The book is chockful of data, research and anecdotes used to explain how the wealth gap was created and actions that can be taken to close it.
This webinar originally aired on Thursday, January 13, 2022.
The Last Word: Steven Rogers
The social justice protests of 2020 left many Americans asking, “What can we do to help?”
Retired Harvard Business School professor and Englewood native Steven Rogers has some ideas. His book, “A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community,” lays out four suggestions he believes anyone can do to help move the country towards racial justice.
As part of our Last Word series, Rogers tells us what America must do to heal the economic legacy of racism.
Interview with Newstalk FM Alive and Kicking Show
This week on Alive and Kicking Clare McKenna chats to Garden Designer Ingrid Smyth about the importance of ‘Re-Wilding’ and letting things grow. Clare also chats to Yvonne Hogan the Editor of ‘Health and Living’ with The Irish Independent about her latest health journey. Plus US Author Steven Rogers about his book, A Letter To My White Friends and Colleagues.
Black Pearl Books feat. Steven Rogers
Steven S. Rogers, author of A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues, talks with Black Pearl Books and answers the question so frequently asked, How Can I Help? In his book, Rogers lays out succinct recommendations on how to help the Black community.
Author Steven Rogers Speaks About the Root Cause of Racial Division
All this week, we've been showing you the aftermath following the murder of George Floyd. Los Angeles responded in a variety of ways: peaceful protests, instances of looting, and deep conversations about the racial divide. Those divisions prompted retired Harvard business school professor Steven Rogers to write a book called “A Letter to my White Friends and Colleagues: What you can do right now to help the Black community." It was published on May 25th, one year to the day of George Floyd’s death. Rogers joins FOX 11 to talk about the root cause of our divisions.
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Former Harvard Business School Professor Steven Rogers examined wealth disparity between Blacks and whites in America and offered some solutions to address the issue. This virtual program was hosted by Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver.
1979 Presents a Discussion with Author Steve Rogers '79 on his Recent Book | Williams Alumni
Discussion with Steve Rogers '79, Author of "A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community"
Author Steven S. Rogers Talks Racial Wealth Disparities in America
Marc Lamont Hill chats with Steven S. Rogers, retired Harvard Business School professor and author of “A letter to my white friends and colleagues” on the racial wealth gap in the United States. Rogers calls for the government to pay reparations of $156,000 to Black Americans that would address, but not solve, the racial wealth disparities in the country.
Private Company Governance Summit 2020 - Main Stage Keynote Interview
A conversation with Steven Rogers, Director Oakmark Mutual Funds, W.S. Darley & Co. Interviewed by Phil Neiswender, Head of Board Engagement for the Americas and Asia Pacific Region, Nasdaq
HBSAAA Webinar: How Black Businesses Can Survive COVID-19
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.
EXACT STEPS To Access the $320 Billion Payroll Protection Funds
Destined for Business Podcast host Keeana Barber, focuses on tools, tips and real life stories to help entrepreneurs scale and grow! This first edition features Professor Steven Rogers of Harvard Business School. He breaks down EXACTLY How Black entrepreneurs can take advantage of the $320 billion in business funding.
The Importance of Entrepreneurship to the Black Community
Steven Rogers (MBA 1957) Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, presents "The Importance of Entrepreneurship to the Black Community" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium.
Movemeback @ Harvard Africa Alumni Action Forum
Movemeback interviews Professor Steven Rogers from Harvard Business School! Watch, like, share and subscribe if you are looking for sophisticated Africa focused footage featuring some of Africa’s brightest and best.
Black Business Leaders Series: The Entrepreneurship Behind Ebony Magazine
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.
Black Business Leaders Series: The Importance of Hiring Minority-Owned Services Firms
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? HBS 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.
HBX Live Case Discussion w/ Professor Steven Rogers
Join 60 fellow HBS alumni and Steven S. Rogers, MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, in the HBX Live virtual classroom for an interactive discussion of “Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics,” a new case on female African American entrepreneurs written for his "Black Business Leaders & Entrepreneurship" course. "Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics" is about a startup company created by Kristen Jones Miller and Amanda E. Johnson (both MBA 2014). This program is delivered in partnership with the HBS Gender Initiative as part of the AASU50 celebration.
How the AASU Conference Inspired Steven Rogers
Senior Lecturer Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) talks about his first African American Student Union (AASU) conference—the annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh conference—and how the inspirational advice he received there shaped his purpose in life.
Ghana Talks Business TV
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In this interview with Harvard Business School's Prof. Steven Rogers, Yaw Korankye Antwi Editor-in-Chief of https://ghanatalksbusiness.com/ quizzes the HBS academic on diversification as a business strategy. Prof. Steven Rogers of Harvard Business School shares insightful views on the need for businesses to strive to be different to stay in business. The business can be different in terms of the product quality, customer services, delivery among others. There are a million ways a business can be different but one must articulate what that difference is.