Recently added articles from Black Enterprise:
Best companies for diversity.(Web Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Measuring a company's diversity efforts is about more than a snapshot in time. Maintaining excellence in this area requires addressing one of the most critical challenges: recruiting, retaining, and developing talent in the executive pipeline of the corporation. This issue of BLACK ...
Online extras.(Web Features)
Jul 01, 2008 ... 1 Kids and Finance One of the principles of the BE Declaration of Financial Empowerment is that equipping kids with the skills to budget and save helps prepare them for a stronger financial future. Learn more by downloading our Wealth Building Guide, 2 Earnings 101 ...
Black enterprise podcasts.(RESOURCES)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Get personal finance, homeownership, consumer, career, and small business advice each week as BE'S editors assist you with gaining the Keys to a Better Life. * Consumer Intelligence with Consumer Affairs Editor Sheiresa McRae * For ...
Our troops deserve our best.(publisher's page)(American troops at war)(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Graves, Earl, G., Jr. ... One of the key issues on the minds of Americans as we approach the home stretch of the 2008 presidential election race is when and how we will bring our troops home from theaters of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. These questions have an even more poignant urgency as we consider the nature of ...
The future of diversity: who's in the pipeline.(About This Issue)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Jerri DeVard. Virgis Colbert. Ann Fudge. Emerson Fullwood. Donna James. Carl Horton. What do they have in common? You might recognize these names as those among the nation's most accomplished leaders who regularly appear on BLACK ENTERPRISE's lists of Top African Americans in Corporate ...
Financial illiteracy.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Jareaux, Marlena ... I have been an avid reader of BLACK ENTERPRISE for years. While I was happy to see coverage dedicated to the green movement in the African American business community (April 2008), I was disappointed to bind not one article on April being Financial Literacy Month. Unfortunately, you missed ...
Subliminal messages.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Henry, Tamara M. Cooke ... IT TRULY DISTRESSES ME THAT BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE, one of the nation's premier African American-owned publications, would run a Ralph Lauren advertisement featuring a white male as one of the first two ads in the April issue. I am an advocate of media literacy and have taught courses ...
Imagery is important.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Blinth, Andrea I. ... THE NEGATIVE IMAGES PORTRAYED ON THE COVER OF Jacqueline Beauchamp's College Football video game disgust me (Techwatch, April 2008). The women are half-naked! BE, please be advised that large ...
Corrections.(Letters)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The name and title of Dr. Mack Roach III are incorrect in "America's Leading Doctors" (May 2008). Dr. Roach is professor, ...
Psychiatrists are doctors, too.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Woods, George ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is with trepidation that I ask you: Did you really not find one psychiatrist to add to the list of best black doctors in America? I looked and looked, and I'm sure I must have missed the number of wonderful psychiatrists in America on your list. We are ...
The green gap.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Drayton, Tylesha D. ... AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WHO WORKS ON ENVIRONMENTAL sustainability issues, it was refreshing to see your April 2008 feature "Growing a Green Business:' Unfortunately, I was disappointed by the lack of information on the huge disparity between white and minority involvement in the green ...
Adapt or die: Savvy CEOs weather the downturn of the auto industry by adopting new technologies.(Steel Industry's earnings)(Industry overview)
Jul 01, 2008; Lekan, Oguntoyinbo ... AT SET ENTERPRISES INC. (NO. 24 ON THE BE INDUSTRIAL/SERVICE 100 list with $205 million in revenues) volume is up, but margins are down. Sid E. Taylor, chairman and CEO of the 19-year-old company that processes steel for auto manufacturers, says the company's profit margin is below the ...
Net connections: media companies make strategic partnerships with online social networks to gain market reach.(BUSINESS NEWS)
Jul 01, 2008; Calypso, Anthony S. ... THE VALUE OF INTERNET-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS appears to be on the rise as media companies recalculate strategies for delivering products to consumers, Recently, Byron Allen's company' Entertainment Studios Inc., formed a partnership with the online social network MySpace to become the ...
Lombard leaves Starbucks: coffee company restructuring its entertainment unit in an effort to invigorate sagging sales.(NEWSMAKER)
Jul 01, 2008; Holmes, Tamara E. ... KEN LOMBARD, WHO JOINED STARBUCKS COFFEE CO. IN 2004 to head its entertainment division, stepped down from his position in April, as the company announced it would revise its entertainment strategy. Lombard, 53, who was senior vice president and president of Starbucks Entertainment, left ...
Peter Bynoe trades up: sports stadium developer takes his acumen to Loop Capital Markets.(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; McCombs, Alexis ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PETER C.B. BY NOE HAS BEEN NAMED MANAGing director of corporate finance at Chicago-based Loop Capital Markets L.L.C., (No. 2 on the BE INVESTMENT BANKS list with $3.2 billion in senior-managed issues). The company's clients have included (as co-managers or ...
High energy: Gaurdie Banister joins Aera as president and CEO.(Aera Energy L.L.C.)
Jul 01, 2008; Porter, Brenda ... GAURDIE E. BANISTER JR. HAS BEEN APPOINTED PRESIDENT AND CEO OF AERA ENERGY L.L.C. in Bakersfield, California. becoming one of the first African Americans in the nation to run a major energy company. Aera Energy, jointly owned by affiliates of Shell Oil and ExxonMobil, is one of ...
Ripple effects: parents' fears keep children away from the water but closer to drowning.
Jul 01, 2008; Richardson, Nicole Marie ... ONLY 1% OF THE ATHLETES THAT MAY BE COMPETING IN water sports in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games next month are African American, according to the USA Swimming Foundation. In an effort to educate more black athletes about water sports and to encourage their participation, the foundation, ...
Behind the numbers: when it comes to earnings, look for quality, not just quantity.(companies' profitability)
Jul 01, 2008; Keenan, Charles ... AS WE HEAD INTO EARNINGS SEASON FOR THE SECOND quarter, make sure that you're focusing on what matters most. All too often investors fixate on how much a company is earning, rather than the actual quality of the earnings. Yet with so many companies missing estimates these days, the ...
It takes more than one: Eric Small approaches the midyear market from several angles.(Interview)
Jul 01, 2008; Anderson, James A. ... We've reached the midway point in a rough-and-tumble year. The equity markets have had a bumpy go of it. One day the S&P 500 is tripped up by credit woes, another day it's hamstrung by a spike in oil prices. It'd be great to have a magic wand and wave away all but the best investment ...
Retail woes: the shoe didn't fit for Gerald Loftin's stock picks.(DSW Inc.'s sales and securities)
Jul 01, 2008; Garmhausen, Steve ... EACH OF THE THREE STOCKS THAT GERALD LOFTIN picked in May 2007 has since lost investors money. But designer shoe retailer DSW Inc. really tanked. "It certainly has gotten killed," admits Loftin, who runs Renaissance Financial Group in Norwood, Massachusetts. "That particular ...