Women CEOs – Black Enterprise

Multimillion-Dollar Black-Owned Small Business Rebounds From Trump Funding Slashes

Jeffrey McKinneyFebruary 9, 2018February 9, 2018

by Jeffrey McKinneyFebruary 9, 2018February 9, 20182408

The Norfolk, Virginia-based company Reddix started in 2006 faced its greatest challenge ever in January after a significant cut in its largest contract after the Trump administration...

Career

Black History Month: Ursula Burns, Fortune 500 CEO

Safon FloydFebruary 10, 2016September 28, 2017

by Safon FloydFebruary 10, 2016September 28, 20171162

Ursula Burns became a history maker in 2009 as the first black woman to become CEO of a Fortune 500 company with Xerox Corp. She...

Career

Cool Jobs: Agency for Artists CEO Talks Building a Respectable Brand in Entertainment

Courtney ConnleyJanuary 3, 2015January 5, 2015

by Courtney ConnleyJanuary 3, 2015January 5, 2015915

Boutique talent firm CEO, Heather Lowery, talks working her way from the bottom up in the entertainment industry...

Career Fashion & Beauty Lifestyle

Beauty Before and After: 4 Career Women Transform into Power Looks

Janell HazelwoodMarch 9, 2012September 24, 2012

by Janell HazelwoodMarch 9, 2012September 24, 20121223

Frank Guyton, celebrity make-up artist and artistic director at Black Opal, creates power looks for four career women, and tells how you can take your...

Career Magazine Women

(About This Issue) A Celebration of Promising Young Talent

Sonia AlleyneMarch 1, 2012January 15, 2019

by Sonia AlleyneMarch 1, 2012January 15, 20191264

Our lists are among our most important franchisesâ€”and for good reason....

Career

Balancing Motherhood and Management

Janel MartinezAugust 29, 2011September 30, 2014

by Janel MartinezAugust 29, 2011September 30, 2014308

The common perception that women in positions of power have to choose between their career and the joys of motherhood is history. “We’re moving past...

Entrepreneurship

On the Rise: A Clean Slate, A Successful Business

Tennille M. RobinsonAugust 19, 2011October 11, 2017

by Tennille M. RobinsonAugust 19, 2011October 11, 2017681

“As a teenage mother with no higher education and very few resources to start a business, I had every reason to quit. Instead, I chose...

No. 14: Ursula Burns, The Corporate Innovator

Derek T. DingleAugust 25, 2010November 14, 2017

by Derek T. DingleAugust 25, 2010November 14, 2017664

In celebration of our 40th anniversary, Black Enterprise ranks the Titans: The 40 Most Powerful African Americans in Business--and how they shaped our world. Follow...

Could Gender Quotas Work in Corporate America?

Gregg SmithMay 25, 2010November 14, 2017

by Gregg SmithMay 25, 2010November 14, 2017562

In 1968, Virginia Slims celebrated with â€œYouâ€™ve come a long way, baby.â€ Over 40 years later, we are still debating if we have bridged the...

BE Lists Magazine Women

75 Most Powerful Women In Business

Sonia AlleyneFebruary 1, 2010November 14, 2017

by Sonia AlleyneFebruary 1, 2010November 14, 20177995

What does it take to be named one of Black Enterpriseâ€™s 75 Most Powerful Women in Business? To identify our senior corporate executives and leading...