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Nancy Lane Remembered
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Photo via ARTnews: Julie Skarratt/Courtesy The Studio Museum In Harlem
Photo via ARTnews: Julie Skarratt/Courtesy The Studio Museum In Harlem
Pioneering executive and arts champion Nancy Lane (PMD 29, 1975) died on March 28 at age 88.
Lane was a longtime board member of the Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), former President of the HBS Club of New York, and the second recipient of the HBSAAA/AASU Bert King Award for Service in 1998. A generous donor, she helped lead the $5.1 million campaign to establish the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Endowed Chair Professorship.
Her obituary in the New York Times notes that Lane was “one of the rare Black women in the 1970s to rise in the corporate ranks, notably at Chase Manhattan and Johnson & Johnson.” Her work in the arts featured important foundational work on the board of Harlem’s Studio Museum, which, in 1988, the Times notes, the Studio Museum “became the nation’s first Black or Hispanic institution to be accredited by the American Association of Museums.”
“Nancy will be remembered for her warm presence and extraordinary contributions not only to the HBS family, but also the business and nonprofit organizations to which she dedicated most of her life to their enormous benefit,” longtime HBSAAA President Ken Powell (MBA 1974) said. “We have all lost a wonderful friend and loyal supporter, who possessed boundless enthusiasm, energy, and warmth in a life well lived that has served us all.”
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