Full Speed Ahead
The day Road One Express Inc. delivered its first package in April 2001, Leonard Wright, president and co-founder, had $40 to his name. Within two months, the 42-year-old entrepreneur was...
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Model Walks off the Runway Into Green Home Cleaning Business
Former model Deanna K. Hains switched gears from the glam world of fashion into the not-so-glam, but quite rewarding world of eco-friendly home cleaning.
Study: C-Suite Exclusion of Black Women Due to Inadequate Visibility, Networks
As more companies are downsizing and reducing budgets, now more than ever, companies must understand how invaluable diversity is to its bottom-line, especially the influence black women executives bring to the corporate sector, according to a recent study.
Preparing Our Sons for the Game of Life
I have often been amazed by the amount of time and energy many parents invest in their sons’ athletic careers. They attend all the games, travel hundreds of miles to take them to tournaments, and scold them if they slack off during practice drills. However, those same parental cheerleaders are often missing in action when it comes to educational oversight. They may spend hundreds of hours in the bleachers, but they don’t take 60 minutes to review their children’s academic standing.
Go With Your Gut
In 1969, as the first black woman to earn an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, Lillian Lambert thought she was destined for a brilliant career advocating for social justice. But after a couple of dead-end jobs with federally funded programs, Lambert felt she’d make more headway as a businessperson. Her intuition pushed her into the cleaning industry, where she launched Centennial One Inc., a commercial cleaning business in Landover, Maryland. The company grew to $20 million in annual revenues and employed 1,200 people before Lambert sold it in 2001.