It’s been three years since New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed off on an executive order that virtually guaranteed that minority and women-owned business enterprises would get a fair s
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A highly touted program designed to lure businesses to New Jersey appears to have survived efforts by local politicos to abolish it – at least temporarily.
Established in 1996 under the direction of
A report on the changing demographics of senior management teams at the world’s leading corporations shows an alarming level of turnover, shortened CEO tenure and increasing difficulty in acquiring
Inside Melba’s, a restaurant in Harlem, such city notables as Kenneth J. Knuckles (Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone), C. Virginia Fields (former Manhattan Borough president), Hazel Dukes (NAACP) and
The country’s economic growth and competitiveness in the global market will increasingly depend on the growth and expansion of minority-owned businesses, according to a new report by the U.S. Depart
Earlier this year, thousands of minority and women-owned business enterprises lauded New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s re-vamped initiative to increase the number of MWBEs that do business with the Gar
A proposed rule to drastically reduce and limit the number of federal agencies where women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) can bid on government contracts has riled thousands of women entrepreneurs acr
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmith-Kline P.L.C. is collaborating with leading local restaurants to promote weight management in African-American and Hispanic communities. Dubbed “Explore the Flavor of
Scattered throughout the crowd gathered to celebrate the dedication of the African Burial Ground National Monument in lower Manhattan were community activists who remember arriving at the site in 1991
Business experts are calling for immediate preventive measures to address the growing disparity between minority-owned businesses and those owned by non-minorities. Too many minority-o