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‘Integrity, curiosity and courage’ are just three of the ingredients to being a good leader according to Ken Chenault, chairman and managing director of the venture capital firm General Catalyst, CEO of American Express for 17 years, and as director or ex-director of Airbnb, Berkshire Hathaway, Facebook, Procter & Gamble and IBM. He said this while chatting to Alec A. Mizzi during the 26th Alf Mizzi & Sons annual group conference which was successfully held online during this COVID-19 year.  The conference was aptly introduced by Dr Mizzi who summed up the pandemic year with a few words ...

CHAPEL HILL –Well, a personal health startup with home offices in Chapel Hill and Newton, Mass., has been on a fast track of development with the pandemic driving more attetntion to remote health services and the search for information about COVID-19. And backing the year-old firm is well-known Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr. Describing itself and its app as “Your all-in-one health guide,” Well disclosed Monday that it had closed on $40 million in first-round funding. The close follows a $25 million seed funding round last year. Well logo “By leveraging member health dat...

The 37-member coalition, called OneTen, said it will connect employers with 'talent partners, leading nonprofits and other skill-credentialing organizations that support the development of diverse talent.' It has raised more than $100 million in seed funding for a project that expands existing corporate vows to increase minority employment.

I invite you to help me celebrate The HistoryMakers' twentieth anniversary with twenty days and nights of panels, discussions and video performances and talks that span the gamut of the African-American experience from December 1st through December 20th (you can find the full schedule of events here). Twenty years ago, visionary attorney Julieanna Richardson looked around and saw that much of the public knowledge of the Black experience and the contributions of African Americans was extremely limited and in some instances, harmful to American society as a whole. So she set out to resear...

Jeff Green, Bloomberg News Workers walk along a covered walkway while leaving the General Motors Co. Oshawa assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. After more than a century and 20 million autos built, the plant will make its last vehicle Wednesday when a final pickup truck rolls off the line. Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg , Bloomberg A new group that includes Merck & Co., General Motors Co. and Walmart Inc. is pledging US$100 million in an effort to hire 1 million Black workers during the next dec...