Steven S. Rogers – Successful Black Entrepreneurs

Steven Rogers retired from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 2019 where he was the “MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer” in General Management.
He taught Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course that he created, titled “Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship.”

A 1985 graduate of the school, Professor Rogers holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College. Prior to HBS, Professor Rogers taught in the MBA and PhD programs at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He received the Outstanding Professor Award for the Executive MBA Program 26 times and daytime program twice. Both are records.

In 2023, he purchased a church that sits on land taken from Black families in 1929.

In 2022, he published his third book, Successful Black Entrepreneurs, and in 2021, he published, A Letter to my White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Now to Help the Black Community. In 2020, he published the 4th edition of, Entrepreneurial Finance: Finance and Business Strategies for the Serious Entrepreneur. He has also authored 30 HBS case studies, most of which have Black protagonists. He has published more case studies with Black protagonists than anyone in the country.

In 2019, he toured 10 HBCUs where he taught a workshop, Finance for Black Entrepreneurs.

In 2017, he received the “Black Brilliance in Service” award from Harvard Law School’s Black Law Students Association, and in that same year, Poets & Quants Magazine selected him as one of “Our Favorite MBA Professors of 2017.”

He has been named one of the top 150 influential people in America by Ebony Magazine, Rogers is the author of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Finance and Business and multiple Harvard Business School case studies and podcasts focused on Black business and financial issues.

He has completed five Triathlons and is part owner of the Chicago Sky, the 2021 WNBA Champions.

Rogers has two daughters, Akilah and Ariel.

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