Are CEOs living up to the pledges they made after George Floyd s murder?
5 May, 2021 09:48 PM
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George Floyd s murder last year forced a reckoning on race that extended to the boardroom. Photo / AP
George Floyd s murder last year forced a reckoning on race that extended to the boardroom. Photo / AP
Financial Times
Promises on diversity and racial justice have proved easier to make than to keep. The words systemic racism used not to be spoken on US companies earnings calls. The murder of George Floyd, a black man killed by a white police officer last May, abruptly changed that, putting the phrase into the mouths of the country s top executives and forcing them to consider their part in a system they were now denouncing.
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Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
04 May 2021Book
by Michael Blanding
In
The Heart of Business, former Best Buy CEO
Hubert Joly shares how he revived the ailing electronics chain, offering a guide to leaders facing seemingly insurmountable challenges.
In 2019, a three-year-old boy walked with his mother into a Florida Best Buy store, clutching a toy dinosaur that Santa had given him for Christmas. Only, the dinosaur’s head had broken, and now tears were streaming down the boy’s face as his mother explained to two sales associates that he was desperate to get the toy fixed.
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