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Negotiating salary is a partial solution to the gender pay gap, yet many women struggle with making the ask for more money, flexibility or opportunity. BE caught up with a few corporate professionals and women entrepreneurs for their best negotiation tips.
Chef Jonny Rhodes has converted his popular soul food restaurant, Indigo, into a grocery store
Derric Studamire, co-founder of the Infinity Club Investment Group (ICIG), shares tips for job-seeking and career planning success for students.
Girls of color are influenced by societal attitudes about race at a young age. More often than not, what contributes to this is that they have few options to see...
Thompson hospitality was in crisis mode. Founded a few months earlier in 1992 when CEO Warren M. Thompson negotiated a leveraged buyout of 31 Big Boy restaurants from Marriott Corp., the fledgling company was neck-deep in debt. Herndon, Virginia-based Thompson Hospitality Corp. (No. 12 on the BE industrial/service companies list with $321 million in revenues) acquired the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia restaurants for $13.1 million. THC also raised $1.9 million in capital from about 25 investors, and Thompson anted up about $100,000 of his own cash to convert the locations into Shoney’s restaurants. But the transaction wasn’t going according to plan.
