Which Companies are Doing the Best at Integrating the Leadership Level?

The Votes are in... Fortune Magazine has identified two outstanding leaders in the corporate world - companies that have broken down color barriers, integrated the executive level, and leveraged diversity for greater bottom line success. These are:

• Pepsi
  
  According to Fortune Magazine, Pepsi was color-blind when no other large company was. In 1940 an essay contest guaranteed the winner a year-long training position at Pepsi, regardless of race. Pepsi became the first major company to hire an African-American man or woman in a professional capacity.
  
  
• IBM
  
  In 1953 a new company policy required the hiring of "people regardless of race, color, or creed." Thus, IBM had implemented the nation's first corporate equal employment opportunity manadate. In addition, in 1956 it opened the first fully integrated plant in the south and forced housing integration in areas where it dominated real estate.
  
  
  

Visit Fortune online to read more about the efforts made by these companies...


Diversity Inc.Magazine has also identified it's top companies for Diversity. Among the top five are:

• Altria
  
  
• Turner Broadcasting Group
  
  
• Citigroup
  
  
• Pepsico
  
  
• Abbott Laboratories
  
  

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