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The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time: 7 PM
Place: John Warren Cooke Conference Room,  FREE EVENT

Lillian Lincoln Lambert will discuss and sign her new book, The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond, the remarkable story of how she achieved the American dream. Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first black woman to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School and, later, the founder of a $20 million maintenance company with 1,200 employees. She relates the inspiring personal journey that took her from dead-end jobs to the world of entrepreneurship, as well as how her love of reading spurred her to reach her goals. A reception and book signing will follow the talk.

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