Bert H. King
MBA 1970
Former HBS assistant director of Admissions, Bert H. King worked as president and executive director of the Council for Opportunity in Graduate Management Education (COGME) from 1971 to 1984.
COGME was a consortium of ten leading business schools, including Harvard and MIT, designed to recruit outstanding minority students and provide them with financial aid and jobs after graduation. Nearly 2,000 minority students benefited from King's work.
King also served as vice president for institutional advancement at Howard University and director of corporate and foundation relations at Boston University. A foundation was established in King's honor to support the enrollment of African American students at HBS.