On behalf of the Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), we are pleased to announce that our 2nd Media, Entertainment & Sports conference will be held in New York City on November 16, 2011 at the Harvard Club in mid-town Manhattan. The planning committee for the HBSAAA Media, Entertainment & Sports Conference has assembled one of the most exciting programs in our history, with top-tier speakers from business, media and academia including Chairman of Citigroup Richard Parsons, President of MSNBC Phil Griffin, CEO of Johnson Publishing Desiree Rogers, and many others.

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Given the grave challenges and exciting opportunities facing the media and entertainment businesses at large, we anticipate an engaging dialogue reflecting the real-time issues confronting top-tier media and entertainment CEOs and executives. We expect this dialogue, and the networking opportunities that it brings, to be of interest not only to media and entertainment executives, but also to the financiers, lawyers, journalists, advertisers, and other professionals who do business with them.HBSAAA alumni are a distinguished group of seasoned and influential business leaders who serve the community and advance Harvard Business School’s mission of educating “leaders who make a difference in the world.”

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The HBSAAA Media, Entertainment, & Sports conference is open to the public and serves as a premier event where hundreds are welcome to hear from and interact with a wide range of industry leaders and serves as a vehicle to cultivate ideas, strategies and views which alter the business landscape. The HBSAAA Media, Entertainment & Sports Conference has distinguished itself by providing opportunities to generate actionable, high impact ideas related to the most relevant business issues of the times. The Conference continues to attract distinguished business leaders from major corporations and financial institutions, entrepreneurs from emerging enterprises, and key government policy makers. Our goal is to provide a unique opportunity for middle and senior level African–American and Latino executives, academicians and political leaders to address timely and relevant business issues while networking among peers.

We hope you will plan to join us and look forward to seeing you in New York City on Wednesday, November 16th.

Thank You,

The Executive Leadership Team
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