Through the Fire
Deborah C. Wright’s office doesn’t have a Park Avenue view. Instead, she looks down on the concrete jungle of 125th Street in the heart of Harlem. Below, the sidewalks are...
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Cleaning Up At Whirlpool
On Jan. 1, 2009, Whirlpool corp. Chairman and CEO Jeff Fettig told its 70,000 employees that economic forces had placed the home appliances manufacturer in the weakest position he could remember. By the end of 2009, the $17 billion giant, the leader in its space against brands that include Electrolux and GE, produced a 9% sales growth and now projects another 6.9% increase in 2010.
Winning the Battle Against Breast Cancer
René Syler’s morning was thrown off balance the day ABC’s Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts announced on air that she had breast cancer. The two are friends, and the...
Q&A With Jay-Z, Michael Jackson Biographer Zack O’Malley Greenburg
"He kept walking for about ten feet -- and I knew he’d heard me, because he was two feet away from me -- and as he was about to turn the corner he looked over his shoulder and said, “That book was horrible!â€
75 Most Powerful Women In Business
What does it take to be named one of Black Enterprise’s 75 Most Powerful Women in Business? To identify our senior corporate executives and leading entrepreneurs—women responsible for developing product lines, positioning brands, operating core business areas, generating revenues, and with profit & loss oversight at the highest levels—our editorial and research teams pored over hundreds of biographies and résumés, as well as conducted interviews with potential candidates and leading trade associations for several months.