Jet, April 29, 1996
Bertram H. King, noted business consultant and former president and executive director of the Council for Opportunity in Graduate Management Education (COGME), recently died at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA. He was 55.
A 1970 graduate of the Harvard Business School in Boston, MA, King was especially devoted to the school’s Black students and alumni.
While King headed COGME from 1971 until 1984, more than 2,000 minority MBA students benefited financially. Under his leadership the organization’s annual budget increased from $7,000 to over $1.3 million. The number of corporate contributors went from two to over 170.
COGME was a consortium of leading business schools designed to recruit outstanding minority students, provide them with financial assistance and encourage their entry into managerial positions in the public and private sectors.
He also served as the Assistant Director of Admissions for the Harvard Business School, and he was a consultant to major corporations on minority recruitment.
Some of his other appointments included Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Howard University in Washington, D.C
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