A Toast to African Wines & Black Female Success

A U.S. wine importer has honored Harvard's first African American woman MBA with trip to South Africa.

Heritage Link Brands LLC, the first U.S. company to exclusively import and distribute black-produced African wines, awarded Lillian Lincoln Lambert, the first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Business School (HBS)- class of 1969 – a complimentary trip to the 2007 Soweto Wine & Brandy Festival.

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In addition to her shining academic accomplishments, Lincoln Lambert, a savvy entrepreneur, business visionary and EBW, achieved greatness and accolades in the business sector as well.

In a mere 25 years she grew her fledgling building services company from a humble group of twenty employees to a to an impressive organization, twelve hundred employees strong.

A co-founder of the HBS African-American Student Union, she was a pioneer in helping the School become more diversified. Later generations "told me they were grateful I had opened doors for them," she says. Read an in-depth article about this remarkable Enterprising Black Woman on the Harvard Alumni website here.