Equality

MBA Programs Say They Want More Diversity. So Where Is It?

Surveys overwhelmingly show a desire to include more people of color in every aspect of the MBA experience, but the evidence reveals a long road ahead.

Tabria Lenard at London Business School. She helped launch the school’s first Black in Business group.

Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
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Feeling that London Business School wasn’t supporting Black students, Tabria Lenard and Cole Agbede did what any MBA candidates would do about a problem: They presented Dean François Ortalo-Magné with a deck of slides to make their point. One said that LBS had no Black faculty members.

Ortalo-Magné corrected them: There was one.