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In 2020 companies took up the cause of racial equity. Now the challenge is accountability. ‘It really starts from the top.’ Abdel Jimenez, Chicago Tribune © Youngrae Kim / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS Joan Taylor, a a software engineering senior analyst at Accenture, at home in Chicago on Dec. 21, 2020. Taylor used the Chicago Apprentice Network program to pursue a technical career after graduating high school at the height of the 2008 Great Recession. Through mentoring opportunities with different department heads, she said she was able to advance and get... Bef...

Chicago area companies made several commitments toward racial equity initiatives, including goals to increase diversity within its own ranks, following civil unrest early this year. But how will companies keep on those promises?

A new study from The Conference Board provided exclusively to CNBC shows that only 71 companies within the Russell 3000 Index announced CEO changes in that period, 11% lower than average turnover in the two prior years. Additional data from staffing firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows that the second quarter was the lowest quarter for CEO turnover since 2008, as far back as its data goes. "It's like people eating comfort food," said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor. With the onset of the pandemic and corresponding economic crisis making so much unknown, employees ...