#Latest news with #KennethChenaultBloomberg04-03-2025BusinessBloombergHarvard Law's Fast Track to the American Elite Is Losing Black StudentsHarvard Law School has a long history of catapulting Black students into the American elite. Barack Obama graduated in 1991. Kenneth Chenault led American Express Co., while Ken Frazier rose to CEO at Merck & Co. and investment bank Lazard Inc. tapped Ray McGuire as its president. A generation before them, Conrad Harper became the first Black partner at Wall Street law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Decades later as president, Obama would appoint Ketanji Brown Jackson (class of 1996) as a federal judge on her way to becoming the first Black woman to join the US Supreme Court.
Bloomberg04-03-2025BusinessBloombergHarvard Law's Fast Track to the American Elite Is Losing Black StudentsHarvard Law School has a long history of catapulting Black students into the American elite. Barack Obama graduated in 1991. Kenneth Chenault led American Express Co., while Ken Frazier rose to CEO at Merck & Co. and investment bank Lazard Inc. tapped Ray McGuire as its president. A generation before them, Conrad Harper became the first Black partner at Wall Street law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Decades later as president, Obama would appoint Ketanji Brown Jackson (class of 1996) as a federal judge on her way to becoming the first Black woman to join the US Supreme Court.
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