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February 28, 2022
Ursula Burns, the first Black woman CEO of a Fortune 500, opened doors. Morgan Stanley's Carla Harris “We can't think…
October 13, 2021
"That 'S' on the chest wasn't for 'Superwoman,'" she told attendees of Tuesday's Most Powerful Women's Summit. "It was for…
June 6, 2021
The 67th edition of Fortune 500 features Walgreens CEO Rosalind "Roz" Brewer and TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett.
February 26, 2021
Finance company TIAA has tapped former JPMorgan Chase & Co executive, Thasunda Brown Duckett, to become the company’s new chief…
February 4, 2021
Word of Frazier's departure from Merck comes as the pharmaceutical giant discontinues its development of a vaccine against COVID-19.
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April 8, 2019
Several Civil Rights groups urge Fortune 500 companies not to hire Trump officials involved in migrant family separation.
January 29, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's CEO Don Thompson is stepping down as the world's biggest hamburger chain fights to hold…
January 15, 2013
theGRIO's 100 - The MIT graduate is the co-founder and CEO of BCT Partners, a technology and policy consulting firm…
July 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - This year’s Executive Leadership Council conference will focus on increasing the number of African-American women in senior…
May 4, 2011
The boards of directors of Fortune 500 companies still look pretty much how you'd expect: Primarily male, and primarily white...
May 12, 2010
THEGRIO REPORT - There is a disturbing trend happening in today's corporate boardrooms. The number of black board directors is…
February 22, 2010
From The NY Times - By all accounts, Ursula Burns, 51, has never been shy about speaking her mind. It's…
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern and worked her way to CEO...