Executive Leadership: What Is Your Professional Reality?
In a special BlackEnterprise.com series, career coach Michelle Awuku-Tatum offers insights and strategies for executives of color to find fulfillment and advancement. When coaching executives, they...
View ArticleBE 100s: Nation’s Most Successful Black-Owned Businesses
Black Enterprise's June 2014 Issue: BE 100s (Image: Black Enterprise) Each year, Black Enterprise, the pre-eminent publication for black entrepreneurship and wealth building, lists its ranking of the...
View ArticleNYC Comptroller Advocating for More Women, Minorities In America’s Boardrooms
The struggle to find a place at the table for minorities and women inside America’s boardrooms continues. Numbers emerging from the nation’s biggest tech firms highlight a disturbing trend. Women and...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Get Leadership and Business Strategy from the Greats, Presented by...
In today’s fast-paced and competitive business market, it’s important to utilize all resources available that will put you as a professional and entrepreneur that much more ahead of the pack....
View ArticleHow this BE 100′s Company Survived Last Year’s Sequestration
Darrell L. Crapps (Image: File) Last year’s sequestration had a profoundly negative impact on businesses that are part of the federal government’s supply chain. (No. 37 on the BE INDUSTRIAL/SERVICE...
View ArticleAmerica’s Most Powerful Black CEOs in Corporate America
Clarence Otis (Image: File) Corporate America was rocked this week by the news that Clarence Otis is stepping down from his post as chairman and CEO of Orlando-based Darden Restaurants, the chain which...
View ArticleObama’s Message To CEOs: Quit Complaining
In an interview aboard Air Force One with journalists from The Economist magazine, President Obama delivered a message from 33,000 feet to the men and women at the helm of some of the nation’s top...
View ArticleUniWorld Reboot: Monique Nelson Carrying the Torch, Rebranding a Legacy
On June 3, the advertising industry was rattled by a game-changing announcement from the longest standing black-owned agency in the country. UniWorld Group, one of the nation’s leading multicultural...
View ArticleLeading Leaders: Princeton Producing the Most Tech CEOs
Though many of tech’s most successful entrepreneurs are college dropouts —Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell, just to name a few—a degree can goes long way when it comes to starting a...
View ArticleFrom Storefront to Wall Street, Ernesta G. Procope Has Blazed Trails in...
Ernesta Procope, the First Lady of Wall Street (Image: File) History-makers seldom have an example to follow; they make a path for others to follow them. Taking on an industry that didn’t see people...
View Article[EXCLUSIVE] Updates from President Obama’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
The message at the U.S. Business Forum hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and U.S. Commerce Department, was loud and clear: Africa is open for business. As part of the US-Africa Leaders Summit —the...
View ArticleREGISTER NOW: Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit’s 10th Anniversary
Beverly Tatum, Ph.D., will be honored with the Barbara Graves Awards at the 2015 Women of Power Summit. (Image: Spelman College) It will be a landmark year for the Black Enterprise Women of Power...
View ArticleCorporate Executive of the Year: Kenneth Frazier Shares Prescription For Growth
Merck Chairman and CEO Kenneth Frazier (Image: File) Get ready for the next breakthrough cancer drug. Merck & Co. is developing pembrolizumab, an investigational anti-PD-1 immunotherapy also known...
View ArticleWe Must Put An End To ‘Male, Pale, and Stale’ on Corporate Boards
Much of corporate America should be ashamed. That’s the only way to characterize its behavior related to corporate governance. At a time when there is a surplus of black executive talent that has...
View ArticleFrom The Corner Office Chat Series Continues With Black Enterprise CEO Earl...
On Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 at 1 p.m., the From The Corner Office Twitter Chat series continues with Black Enterprise President and CEO Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (@earlbutchgraves), who will share...
View ArticleThe Progress Cha Cha: How Achievements—and Setbacks—Lead to Business Success
Last week, I met with a group of business owners in Houston. It’s an impressive group of sharp, committed leaders who meet monthly for the purpose of professional development. They are clearly intent...
View ArticleDelphi CEO Rodney O’Neal to Retire in March 2015
Rodney O'Neal (Image: File) According to reports, Delphi Automotive Plc announced CEO Rodney O’Neal will retire from his post in March 2015. He will be succeeded by CFO Kevin Clark. O’Neal, 61, joined...
View Article[RECAP] Randal Pinkett Talks CEO Strategy and Success via From the Corner...
By Cristie Leondis On Monday, Sept. 8, Black Enterprise hosted a Twitter chat, sponsored by BMW, with guest BCT Partners’ Randal Pinkett, who spoke about business strategy. The author and technology...
View ArticleNational Black MBA Conference: How to Rule the Corner Office
The National Black MBA Association Inc. (NBMBAA) is on the fifth day of its 36th Annual Conference and Exposition in Atlanta, where thousands of professionals, students, entrepreneurs, and CEOs...
View ArticleNational Black MBA Conference: Earvin “Magic” Johnson Talks CEO Mindset &...
The key to extraordinary leadership is not just leveraging the right opportunities, but taking those opportunities above and beyond for long-term residuals. NBA legend, two-time Hall of Famer and...
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