During her last semester at Harvard Business School, Atima Lui turned down a prime Silicon Valley tech job to pursue a higher purpose: improving the confidence of dark-skinned women and girls. She built her company, Nudest, around the “Nudemeter” — technology that matches a woman’s skin tone to one of 54 in its system to […]

Congratulations to our partners who were named amongst the nation’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity List that hire, retain and promote women, minorities and people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ and veterans by DiversityInc. DiversityInc’s extensive annual survey, established in 2001, yields an empirically driven ranking based on recruitment, talent development, senior leadership commitment, and supplier diversity. […]

Karen Civil and her special guests Gary Vaynerchuk and Ryan Leslie surprise the young entrepreneurs behind education tech startup PeduL, and drop a few gems on how to take their company to the next level.
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The National Black MBA Association^® (NBMBAA^®) held another Black Think Symposium on May 1, 2018 on the campus of Morgan State University. Leaders from the corporate, private, nonprofit, government and education sectors gathered to brainstorm on key topics tied to the educational landscape. LePra George, Director of Collegiate Partnerships opened the symposium and introduced President […]

The National Black MBA Association has announced the formation of the Bakari Henderson Memorial Scholarship Fund, named in honor of a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Arizona, world traveler, and budding entrepreneur who was senselessly killed while vacationing in Greece.
An aspiring fashion designer, Bakari Henderson had an entrepreneurial spirit and read books like Malcolm […]

Harvard Business School and the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) are pioneering initiatives to bolster African American representation within MBA cohorts
In 2016, a report by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) concluded that African Americans were starkly underrepresented in business schools.
Only 8% of US-origin GMAT examinees were black. Low representation in the business school pipeline had implications […]

Atlanta, GA (March 22, 2018) – The National Black MBA Association^® (NBMBAA^®) recently announced its partnership with Johnson & Johnson – the world’s largest and most broadly-based health care company. This partnership was created in an effort to break new grounds on everything from company culture and forward-thinking business practices, to diversity in the workplace, […]