Excerpt from Washington Magazine: The late-Sterling H. Schoen, a Washington University business professor, was the undisputed powerhouse behind the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, the business diversity organization he founded and served for 14 years.
After waking to the possibility that a “consortium” of business schools could address racial inequity in corporate leadership, Schoen willed it into existence as an organizer, fundraiser, and recruiter — all while maintaining a modest teaching load. Those who knew Schoen said he could be single-minded in his pursuit of the consortium’s mission to launch African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans into business careers.
“He was very clear about what he thought the vision ought to be for this cohort of people,” says Leroy Nunery, MBA ’79, an early consortium fellow who graduated a year before Schoen retired from the consortium. “You have to remember that at this time he was sticking his neck out. These companies were putting money into the organization to find talent that looked different from what they already had.” Read more here.