Lillian Lincoln
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert is an American businesswoman, and the first
Biography
Early life and education
Lambert grew up in Ballsville, Virginia, fifty miles west of Richmond. She was the daughter of a teacher and a farmer[1] and was raised on a Powhatan County farm.[2] Growing up, she did chores in the fields, but "had a thirst for knowledge" and read in her spare time.[2] "Intent on making her mark in a big city" she went to New York after high school but the only work she found was as a maid.[3] After three years in New York, she moved to Washington, D.C., found work in government typing pools and attended teachers' college part-time. At age 22, she transferred to Howard University and studied business. She graduated in 1966. While at Howard, she met H. Naylor Fitzhugh, one of the first blacks to attend Harvard Business School (MBA in 1933). Lambert worked as Fitzhugh's research assistant at Howard and Fitzhugh became her mentor. He persuaded her to apply to HBS.[1]
In the fall of 1967, Lambert registered for Harvard Business School, not realizing until she arrived that she was the only black woman at HBS:
Career
Before graduating in 1969, Lambert was not interviewed or recruited by a single company. She decided to return to her previous employer in D.C. - a management consulting company, Sterling. After the company closed its Washington office, she held various jobs, including
In 1976, she launched her own building services company, Centennial One, headquartered in
Lambert sold Centennial One in 2001 and began a successful speaking career, and wrote a book about her experiences, The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond (published by Wiley, 2010).[citation needed]
Honors
In 2003, Harvard Business School awarded Lambert the Alumni Achievement Award, the highest award bestowed on its alumni. The award recognizes recipients for "the contributions they made to their companies and communities, while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do." In 2010, Lambert was inducted into Enterprise Women Magazine's Enterprising Women Hall of Fame.[2] Lambert sits on the Board of Visitors at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Board of Directors for Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d e Opening Doors and Giving Back: Lillian Lincoln and AASU's Early Years[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c "Virginia Women in History 2011 - Lillian Lincoln Lambert". www.lva.virginia.gov. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
- ^ a b c A Pioneer Woman on the MBA Frontier Looks Back
- ^ a b c Alumni Achievement Awards