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Black Enterprise’s Extraordinary Journey

Black Enterprise’s Extraordinary Journey

Black enterprise was just a modest monthly magazine when I founded it 40 years ago—just me; a few brave forward-thinking advertisers like Pepsi, ExxonMobil, and General Motors; and a small but spirited and talented staff. Oh, and one other person who did just about everything there is to do to put out a magazine back then—a combination writer, editor, proofreader, layout designer, sales director, office manager, and vice president in charge of shutting down the publisher’s bad ideas—my wife of 50 years, Barbara Graves.

Service Leadership

In 30 years Janice Bryant Howroyd has created a billion-dollar juggernaut using a business model around one specific area: work. Asserts Bryant Howroyd: “Work is what we know; work is what we do. Whether we’re helping to design and manage work or helping people to achieve work and careers.” It’s a simple but apt description for a company that ranks No. 2 on the BE Industrial/Service companies list and has shown phenomenal growth during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression—revenues have grown 111% in the past five years.

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