November/December 2007
Rising Stars
If you don't yet know the six rising business stars in the following pages, you should. From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, they're helping to define Harvard's next generation of leadership.
Photograph by Walter SmithBeverly AndersonBeverly Anderson
Vice President, American Express, Proprietary Lending
MBA 1997
Beverly Anderson, 43, never forgets where she came from—Paducah, Ky., pop. 26,000, to be exact. “I am a long way from home,” Anderson says. She describes her upbringing as “lower income, but with parents that had huge aspirations for the lives of their children and worked really hard to make it happen.”
After nearly 20 years in the financial services industry, Anderson joined American Express in 2004, where she is now the vice president of proprietary lending. “What’s most impressive about Beverly is her ability to synthesize vast amounts of data into easily understood and articulated plans and strategy,” says Larry Sharnak, senior vice president and general manager of consumer lending at AmEx. “She gets it.”
While Anderson freely admits to being a workaholic, she is active with the Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association and American Express’ Diversity Council. In terms of career advice to other African-Americans, Anderson doesn’t mince words: “You just have to be the best in class. Be smarter, jump higher, to get in the game.”
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