Book details

  • Genre:business & economics
  • Sub-genre:Corporate & Business History
  • Language:English
  • Pages:228
  • eBook ISBN:9781623099473

Black Life in Corporate America

Swimming in the Mainstream

By George Davis and Glegg Watson

Overview


When it was published in 1982, Business Week called it a book "packed with insights that might otherwise remain hidden for years." The New York Times Book Review called it: "A thoroughly readable book of immediate interest to average readers as well as specialists in business administration, psychology and social and cultural history." Black Life in Corporate America became an immediate bestseller and was one of the most widely reviewed books of the year. The authors were asked by almost every graduate business school in the nation to create and teach a course based on the book’s insights. They taught their course for two terms at the Yale School of Organization and Management, making it the first course in the nation in multicultural management.
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Description


When it was published in 1982, Business Week called it a book "packed with insights that might otherwise remain hidden for years." The New York Times Book Review called it: "A thoroughly readable book of immediate interest to average readers as well as specialists in business administration, psychology and social and cultural history." Black Life in Corporate America became an immediate bestseller and was one of the most widely reviewed books of the year. The authors were asked by almost every graduate business school in the nation to create and teach a course based on the book’s insights. They taught their course for two terms at the Yale School of Organization and Management, making it the first course in the nation in multicultural management.
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About The Author


George Davis is professor emeritus at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. He has been a writer and editor at the Washington Post, New York Times, Essence, and Black Enterprise. His first novel, Coming Home (Random House), supplied the story upon which the Academy Award-winning Vietnam War film of the same name, starring Jane Fonda was loosely based. His latest work, The Melting Points is a novel of domestic and geopolitical intrigue. Davis has formed a production company to turn, Branches: From “We Shall Overcome” to “Yes We Can,” his work in progress, into a television series.
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