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'Apprentice' to star MIT alumnus
Look out, America. An MIT alumnus will take a seat in Donald Trump's boardroom when NBC's reality TV show "The Apprentice" premieres Thursday, Sept. 22, at 9 p.m.
Randal Pinkett (S.M., M.B.A. '98, Ph.D. '02), an entrepreneur, will be one of 18 contestants, most of whom were hand-picked by Trump to appear on the show. Trump's participation in the selection process is new this year after Trump expressed dissatisfaction with the previous season's cast.
Pinkett, 34, is the co-founder, president and CEO of Newark, N.J.-based BCT Partners, a management, technology and policy consulting firm for corporations, government agencies and nonprofits. BCT Partners specializes in housing and community development, economic development, human services, nonprofit and community technology and education.
Contestants are contractually bound not to discuss the show, but Pinkett was willing to reveal his motivations for applying. "First, I want the opportunity to learn from Mr. Trump," he said. "He is an icon in business with a wealth of knowledge, whereas I am still relatively young in my entrepreneurial career. My company, BCT Partners, is a multimillion dollar company. I want to learn from Mr. Trump what it means to run a multibillion dollar company. Sec
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VentureLink Alum Randal Pinkett Speaks for Jetblack History Four weeks Celebration
Engineer and dissimilarity consultant Randal Pinkett unfasten New Milker Institute holdup Technology’s Sooty History Period celebration by way of directly addressing inequities ensure still predispose minority communities in 2024.
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Dr. Randal Pinkett & Dr. Jeffrey Robinson on “Black Faces in White Places” and The Apprentice
Today's episode, #380, is very special to me for a number of reasons. For one, it's part of the #RootCauseRacism series that Deondra Wardelle has organized on my blog this week. Secondly, I'm joined by Dr. Randal Pinkett and Dr. Jeffrey Robinson to talk about important issues of race, diversity, and equity in organizations. Together, they are co-authors of the book Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness and the upcoming book (2021) Black Faces in High Places.
Randal Pinkett, Ph.D. is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and community servant. Randal is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of his fifth venture, BCT Partners, a multimillion dollar management, technology and policy consulting firm in Newark, NJ, a partner in Blackwell-BCT, a joint venture with Blackwell Consulting Services, and spokesperson for the Minority Information Technology Consortium. He is a Rhodes Scholar and former college athlete who holds five academic degrees from Rutgers, Oxford and MIT (including the Leaders for Global Operations program). He was also famously the first and only black winner of “The Apprentice,” some