Marion Cunningham 
From The New York Times: Responding to pressure from federal bank regulators, Citigroup on Wednesday named Richard D. Parsons, the former chairman of Time Warner, as its next chairman. Mr. Parsons, 60, succeeds Winfried F. W. Bischoff, 66, a longtime Citigroup banker who, as chairman, presided over an increasingly fractious board, the bank said in […]
January 21, 2009 | Posted in Co-feature,Diversity | Read more » 
Here’s what our expert columnists want you to resolve to do to make your business better in 2009. Read full story
January 21, 2009 | Posted in Business,Entrepreneurs | Read more »
Giant Wells Fargo Bank announced last week that it has met its goal of lending $1 billion to Black-owned businesses within a 10 year period. In fact the Cailfornia-based financial institution says it met the goals two years early. The goal was apart of the banks African-American Business Services Program. Read full story
January 21, 2009 | Posted in Black Owned,Co-feature | Read more »
Don’t think a gardener can be a referral source to the rich? Think again. Discounting even one potential networking opportunity can be disastrous. Read full story
January 21, 2009 | Posted in Business,Entrepreneurs | Read more »
I received some of my most valuable sales seminars from my father–while wearing hip waders. His mantra: Be yourself. Even if you smell like fish. Read full story
January 21, 2009 | Posted in Business,Entrepreneurs | Read more »
With the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first black president of the U.S. a day away, the historic occasion has been celebrated through a countless number of festive activities throughout the nation’s capital. But Sunday night’s Private-Equity Inaugural Gala attracted scores of BE 100s CEOs, heavyweight minority executives, and high-powered politicians to network and […]
January 20, 2009 | Posted in Black Owned,Co-feature | Read more »
Unsure what to cut and what to keep? This smart, 4-point checklist is your guide to recession-era advertising.
January 16, 2009 | Posted in Business,Entrepreneurs | Read more »
To take their ventures to new heights, entrepreneurs head back to class in the SBA’s Emerging 200 program.
January 16, 2009 | Posted in Business,Entrepreneurs | Read more »
“President-elect Barack Obama said it best. This election was not about him. It is about us. It is a call to the people of consciousness to rise up and move us forward in the areas where we have gotten stuck,” said Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. “We have a lot […]
January 16, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read more »
I walked away from this year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit feeling comforted. That hasn’t always been the case. There’s been auto shows where I’ve winced when the wraps were removed, revealing questionable vehicles beneath. They’d either be too big, or too cramped, or not really a hybrid, leaving me to wonder who’d […]
January 15, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read more »
