Sentence examples for minority executive from inspiring English sources

A study of the top 10,000 executives published this year – written by Phillips and Professor Richard Webber, of Kings College London – found that more than half of FTSE 100 firms had no non-whites at board level, and two-thirds had no full-time minority executive directors.

Only a tiny amount had a black, Asian, or ethnic minority executive in their senior management.

She has also won the 40 under 40 Minority Executive Award in addition to other community based honors.

So, for that matter, is the number of minority executives.

It could be a "glass cliff" scenario, the phenomenon in which female or minority executives are appointed as C.E.O.s only by companies that are likely to fail.

Mr. Rand, who is black, became one of the country's leading minority executives last November when he accepted the top post at Avis, the rental car company.

Upshaw as a partner of the N.F.L. must defend its snail's pace of progress in hiring minority executives and the inference that a lack of preparation, not racism, is the reason for the slow pace.

Professor Thomas teaches leadership and career management at the Harvard Business School, is a co-author of "Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America" and a consultant to multinational corporations.

"Slipped right on it, just like in the cartoons," said Batson, now 49, the general manager at his old team and one of the first minority executives in English soccer.

"One of the things that gets in the way is that a lot of these organizations have cultures that are homogenizing for everybody," said David A. Thomas, another Harvard Business School professor and the author, with John J. Gabarro, of "Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America" (Harvard Business School Press, 1999).

In the same period, safety incidents have fallen 30%, the number of female executives has risen 43% and the number of minority executives has grown 26%.