Koehn, Nancy F., Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms, and Katherine Miller. "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Harvard Business ...

The intensity of Walker’s early jobs began to cause hair loss, and it was out of this unfortunate circumstance that grew her “secret” formula for a scalp ointment that promoted healthy hair growth.

Founder of a million-dollar hair-care company, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty to become one of the richest Black women in early-1900s America.

In 2007, her career became the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. And in 2020, her story was told in a limited television series produced by Netflix. Madam C.J. Walker was active in ...

To this day, Madam CJ Walker products can be purchased in stores ... that we think we invented or came out of Harvard Business School and this is something that this woman was doing 100 years ...

she had established a school in Pittsburgh, training "hair culturists" in her methods. Indianapolis became her next destination in 1910, transforming into the epicentre of the Madam C.J. Walker ...

Dr. Amanda Foreman visits the family archive of Madame C. J. Walker to examine her rise to power. Photographs, documents and artifacts illustrate Walker’s journey from growing up on an old slave ...

Meet the First Self-Made Female Millionaire Madam C.J. Walker was suffering from poverty and hair loss when she decided to concoct a hair regrowth lotion to heal her damaged scalp. Fast forward a ...