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- Quantifying Minority Hiring
- THE SCENARIO: I'm charged with filling a management position at my company, and the two top candidates are a white male and a black female, both from outside the company. On paper, their qualifications are very similar, but after several rounds of interviews I feel that the white male has...
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Poll: When Does a Minority Hiring Initiative Go Too Far
- THE SCENARIO: About a year ago, my company hired an African-American vice-president in charge of recruitment, with the goal of increasing minority representation in the company. Since then, minorities have accounted for over 40 percent of new hires, though they represent less than 10 percent of applicants, and some employees...
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- The Future CardHolder
- The 2000 census affirmed that the Hispanic community in the U.S. is growing like gangbusters. The prognosticators even say that Hispanics soon will surpass African Americans as the country's largest minority group. Virtually every minority is growing faster than the dominant Caucasians. For the card industry, America's new face means...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Minority Execs Want an Even Break
- The article tries to project the fact that minority executives want the same things as majority executives. Retaining successful minority executives is, in large part, dependent on the extent to which their talents and abilities are applied, the responsibility and authority they are being given, how well performance appraisals are...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Ethnic Differences in Tipping: Evidence, Explanations, and Implications
- Anecdotal evidence suggests that many waiters and waitresses deliver poor service to ethnic minorities because they believe that ethnic minorities are poor tippers. How managers should deal with this problem depends in part on whether or not ethnic minorities really do tip less than Whites and if they do on...
- White papers 2001-06-21
- Shareholder Wealth Effects And Bid Negotiation In Freeze-Out Deals
- This paper examines the shareholder wealth effects of bids by controlling shareholders seeking to acquire the remaining minority equity stake in a firm, deals commonly referred to as minority freeze-outs. Minority claimants in freeze-out offers receive an allocation of deal surplus at the bid announcement that exceeds their pro rata...
- White papers 2006-03-20
- Central European Media Enterprises Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from David Kestenbaum of Morgan Joseph. David B. Kestenbaum - Morgan Joseph Okay thank you. Michael you said in the past that one of your goals is here is to buy back some of the minority interest in...
- Earnings calls 2007-08-02
- US Court Rules Against Minority Set Asides in Federal Contracting
- A three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled that the Department of Defense's policy of setting aside 5% of contracts for disadvantage, minority owned companies was unconstitutional. Newsday.com reports here that the court stated the Department failed to prove discrimination against these minority contractors. The...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Maryland Attempts to Make Utilities Meet Minority Owned Business Quotas
- Recently we wrote about how a US Federal Court had thrown out the DoD requirement on sub-contracting with minority owned businesses as being basically Unconstitutional. Now it is reported at The Birmingham Examiner that the Maryland Public Service Commission PSC wants to set goals for the private utilities that...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
Additional Resources
- Update: Minority Hiring Poll
- Update: Minority Hiring PollQuick curveball idea here for you all...An interesting idea I picked up from Tim Harford's book "Logic Of Life" may apply here.Basically, companies that exert taste-based discrimination AKA bigotry in their hiring practices are in the long run shooting themselves in the foot because they are denying...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Google Translator Toolkit and minority languages
- Today, we've added 285 new languages to Google Translator Toolkit , bringing the total number of languages supported by this product to 345 — and making it possible to translate between 10,664 language pairs. Google Translator Toolkit is a language translation service for professional and amateur translators...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Minority Hiring
- Minority HiringUnfair hiring practices? I don't think so!Let's see -- 40% in one year? How far does that go in redressing the imbalances resulting from years of discrimination?As for qualifications - the interview and hiring process being what it is, who can fairly judge this? The process...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- In Letter to P&G, Mehri and NAACP Say Talk of Minority Agencies Is "Counter-Productive"
- Cyrus Mehri and the NAACP have sent a strongly worded four-page letter to Procter & Gamble and a couple dozen other major marketers insisting that they force their advertising agencies to use non-white staffers in creative and account management positions. The letter is part of Mehri's plan...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Minority Media Telecommunications Council. (Minority Reports).(plans to ask the FCC to strengthen minority- and gender-recruiting rules for broadcast stations and cable systems)(Brief Article)
- The MINORITY MEDIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL said it will ask the FCC to strengthen minority- and gender-recruiting rules for broadcast stations ... The MINORITY MEDIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL said it will ask the FCC to strengthen minority- and gender-recruiting rules for broadcast stations and cable...
- Research articles 2003-06-30
- Minority procurement needed down the chain.(Opinion)(minority-owned auto suppliers)
- Leaders among minority-owned auto suppliers are alarmed that tier-one suppliers aren't embracing minority procurement programs as readily as the automakers who first created them. (See story, Page 1.) The auto industry has supported minority-procu Leaders among minority-owned auto suppliers are alarmed that ...
- Research articles 2004-07-05
- SBA and Commerce will expand outreach to small and minority-owned firms
- President Obama has directed leaders of the Small Business Administration and Commerce Department to renew the push to meet contracting goals for minority-owned and small businesses.In a statement released through SBA, Obama said it is essential to provide those companies with the greatest possible opportunity to participate in federal contracting."Small...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Update: Minority Hiring Poll
- The unwritten rule among referees and umpires is that if you blow one, you fix it. It's called the "make-up call." Our poll on minority hiring alluded to a similar scenario, asking if it's acceptable to fix previous injustices in minority recruitment and hiring by pushing it...
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- GM, Ford, Comerica bring in 300 minority lawyers for conference.(News)(Minority Outside Counsel Networking Conference)
- Byline: Robert Ankeny More than 300 minority lawyers from across the country will get a rare opportunity this week to meet with top automaker and bank attorneys who hire outside legal work. The Minority Outside Counsel Networking Conference is s Byline:...
- Research articles 2002-10-14
- MAC teams with NSF to increase minority numbers in chemical engineering faculty
- More than 60 current and aspiring minority faculty attended the workshop "Minority CHE Faculty 2001+: A workshop to develop minority leaders in the Chemical Engineering Academy," held March 4 to 6 at the National Science Foundation NSF in Arlington, VA. The conference, sponsored by AIChE's Minority Affairs Committee, the Chemical...
- Research articles 2001-05-01
- Wisconsin Department of Commerce seeks minority businesses for awards
- The Bureau of Minority Business Development of the Wisconsin Department of Commerce is calling for minority businesses to apply for recognition as 2007's minority business of the year. High-performing businesses will be honored in three categories during a ceremony at the Ho-Chunk Casino Hotel and Convention Center in...
- Research articles 2007-08-14
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