Brown is no stranger to adversity. In an op-ed written for The Washington Post titled "I'm a black CEO. I've been discounted on Wall Street because of my skin color.," Brown detailed his rise ...

Kenneth Fraizer, CEO of the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., is retiring. That means there are now only three Black CEOs in the Fortune 500. Corporate America has long struggled with diversity ...

If those graduates had a steady rate of advancement, one would expect there to be 50 black Fortune 500 CEOs. But despite decades of work on diversity in corporate America, progress has been ...

In January he took over Exelon, an S&P 100 energy producer, making him one of the top Black CEOs in America and the first African American to hold the position. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY ...

“We think that the low representation of Black CEOs in corporate America today is just shocking,” Ann Mooney Murphy, an associate professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology School of ...

Great leaders aren't just confident and decisive — they also habitually lean on others, according to former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns. Burns — who became the first Black female CEO of a Fortune ...

In that time, just 28 of those chief executives have been Black. The latest addition is Michael Bender, who was named CEO of Kohl’s in early May. In the 2025 Fortune 500, nine companies are led ...

In this episode of "From the Corner Office," Black Enterprise President and CEO Earl "Butch" Graves, Jr., has an insightful conversation with Manulife President and CEO Roy Gori on what the future ...

And then there were none. Walgreens Boots Alliance said Friday that its CEO, Rosalind Brewer, had stepped down. Brewer, 61, was the only Black female CEO currently running an S&P 500 company.

“By the time a [Black executive] gets to the CEO office, they’ve time after time had to prove themselves. So, when they reach that highest point, they are extraordinary,” Dr. Murphy told the ...

CEO and author Gleb Tsipursky believes Jamie ... the Society for Human Resource Management last September found that half of all Black office workers wanted to work from home permanently, while ...