Capitalizing On 'An Amazing Moment'

Debate still rages over how much the racial divide in the United States has been narrowed by the election of the country's first black president. But speakers at the Kellogg School's 22nd Black Management Association Conference on Saturday seemed to agree on one thing: now is the time for leaders in the African-American business community to leverage Washington's prevailing political winds. Throughout the day, corporate executives, private entrepreneurs, government officials and academics laid out a variety of strategies for fostering economic development under an administration that is facing a severe economic downturn marked by high levels of unemployment and shrinking access to capital.