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In his new role as director of the applICAtion platform service line in the Worldwide Services division of Redmond, Washington-based software giant Microsoft Corp., Courtenay Yates wanted to retool for the formidable task of overseeing the division’s international business strategy and operations.
Senior House Republican aides say the bill is unlikely to come up in the chamber for a vote
The sluggish economy turned Steven L. Grevious’ professional life upside down. From the late 1990s until the middle of 2001, Grevious earned $150,000 a year as an independent contractor in...
When Chicagoans John and Maggie Anderson made a pledge to spend all of their income with black-owned businesses for an entire year, they launched a movement that would eventually become The Empowerment Experiment (www.eefortomorrow.com). The story of that year, 2009, has now been told in a new book by Maggie Anderson, Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy (PublicAffairs; $25.99).
Project Black invests in middle-market companies that are not currently minority owned, as well as existing Black- and Hispanic-owned businesses, providing capital, resources and minority executive talent.
