The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond - Hardcoverby Lillian Lincoln Lambert (Author) The first black woman Harvard MBA tells the remarkable story of how she achieved the American dream Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first black woman to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School and, later, the founder of a $20 million maintenance company with 1,200 employees. In The Road to Someplace Better, she shares an inspiring