Eyes on Enterprise: Racism in Corporate America - Importance of Diversity
Examining entrepreneurship, business development, wealth creation, money management, and risk taking, across all races and ethnicities.
May 9th, 2013
Written by Manny Otiko in Eyes On The Enterprise with 1 Comment
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and with the black unemployment rate at about 14 percent, almost double the overall unemployment rate of 7.6 percent, Foster Williams says that unemployed African-Americans need to take a new approach.
Williams is managing partner of Search4uinc.com, an employment networking organization based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Williams, who says he has 10...
May 8th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
On May 1, GMI Ratings released its annual “Women on Boards” report, which found the percentage of female directors in large companies — those among the Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 500 — rose only one-half of a percentage point since December 2011. The rate of increase rose slightly higher among smaller companies in the S&P Midcap and S&P Smallcap indices. Since 2009, the percentage of...
May 1st, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Eyes On The Enterprise with 1 Comment
Alvin Turner met Chad Tall late last month in pursuit of a cause that now spans the course of both their lifetimes.
Turner was there back in 1968, when Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis to demonstrate in support of striking sanitation workers like him merely seeking a livable wage. This time, the 78-year-old rebel took his defiant stance in New York’s Time Square, side-by-side, the 20-year-...
April 24th, 2013
Written by Kay Johnson - Associated Press in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
India Concerned About U.S. Immigration Bill Ramifications
MUMBAI, India (AP) — Low cost efficiency put India's outsourcing companies at the heart of global business and created a multi-billion dollar industry that for years skated over criticism that it eliminated white collar jobs in rich nations. Now, the reality of the industry's long-held fears of a backlash is hitting hard in its crucial U...
April 22nd, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
While some segments of the economy remain in a slump and unemployment remains high for many African Americans, the niche of black investors report “high levels of confidence” in their financial future, according to a recent nationwide financial survey released April 10.
The report comes as the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that black unemployment rate decreased from 13.8...
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