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Want Your Product on a Wal-Mart Shelf? Check Out Our ‘Get on the Shelf’ Series
Black Enterprise and Wal-Mart have joined forces with a campaign focused on education minority business owners how they can get their products on Wal-Mart shelves. The campaign will highlight articles...
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Back to School Lessons for Growing Your Business
(Image: Thinkstock) As children go back to school, what they do is a reminder for business. Consider all of the things that we remind our children to do, that you might overlook in your business. The...
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Startup Competition Winners Say Mentorship is The Key to Efficiency
In an interview with Business Insider, Sulaiman Sanni, co-founder of nonprofit crowdfunding platform WeDidIt, says finding a mentor early is the best way startups can focus on the things that really...
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Confused About the Mentoring Process? 6 Tips to Help
Everyone thinks they need one, everyone really wants one and we all struggle when it comes to getting one. I’m talking about mentors. Subconsciously, when we think of mentors, we immediately think of...
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Siena College Student Hoping to Get His Invention on Wal-Mart Shelves
A Siena College student is getting national attention for inventing a device to help train dogs and it could end up on Wal-Mart shelves, according to YNN. Chad Bingo, 20, a Western New York native,...
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Wal-Mart Contest Inspires Long Island Entrepreneurs
Vinny Mazzurco, a self-proclaimed connoisseur of a winning baseball swing, is looking to Wal-Mart’s Get on the Shelf contest to bring his DVD of batting lessons to the world, according to NewsDay....
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Diversity and Mentorship Opportunities Important to Save-A-Lot Employees
“Employees tend to stick with companies that help them grow,” said Jason Harris, a category director at Save-A-Lot, according to the St. Louis American. When Harris started with Save-A-Lot six years...
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Pepco Reaches Out to Diverse Suppliers
Pepco held its second Supplier Diversity Forum on Thursday, July 25, at Pepco Holdings, Inc.’s Edison Place headquarters. The forum was attended by more than 80 diverse suppliers from throughout the...
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New York & New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council Salutes Veteran...
The New York & New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council (The Council) continued to celebrate its 40th anniversary with saluting veteran minority business owners, who have been certified by...
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5 Strategies for Diverse Supplier Program Success
According to a 2012 survey from CAPS Research, nearly 72 percent of organizations expect their total supplier diversity program spend to increase by 2014. To better position minority and women business...
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Opportunities in Supplier Diversity
BlackwellDespite the tentative economy, Karen Blackwell, manager of supplier diversity and development for Nestlé Business Services, North America, says businesses are searching for viable suppliers....
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Tapping Supplier Diversity To Energize Your Business
Black Enterprise Magazine Editor-in-Chief Derek T. Dingle led an insightful panel for Minority Enterprise Development Week (better known as MEDWeek and presented by the Minority Business Development...
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Ten Steps to Grow Your Business
ADP's Brown believes all business starts with a conversation. De Asa Brown often reminds minority entrepreneurs of the old sports adage: Every time you’re up to bat you might not get a hit but you have...
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Five Steps to Becoming a Supplier for America’s Largest Retailer
Richelieu Dennis, CEO/Founder of Sundial Group (center) Richelieu Dennis learned at an early age how to spot opportunity – even when literally under fire. More than 20 years ago, college graduates...
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Entrepreneurs Conference: Get Your Product On The Shelf and Into Major Retail...
Lefty’s Barbecue started out as rib joint founded by Walter Nash Sr. (a.k.a. Lefty) and his wife, Margaret, in 1989 and was later opened as a full-service restaurant. Nine years later, Walter Nash Jr....
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NMSDC, University of Washington Foster School of Business Announce Partnership
The National Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc.® (NMSDC®) and the University of Washington’s Business and Economic Development Center (UW-BEDC) announced a partnership agreement to further the...
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UPS Foundation Gives $7.6 Million to Diversity and Veterans Causes
The UPS Foundation will donate more than $7.6 million to 41 nonprofits in 2013, including about $1 million each for the Paralyzed Veterans of America, National Council of La Raza and National Urban...
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Do Diverse Teams Make Better Decisions?
(Image: Thinkstock) From HR Magazine On 4 June, I addressed a diverse audience of business people at the London launch of The Two Percent Club – which addresses the imbalance of talent at the top of...
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Hiring Need Spurs CEO Push for Diversity from General Electric, Xerox
General Electric, Xerox and General Mills have a message for U.S. courts: Hiring more women and minorities is good for profits. That trio was among 57 large corporations that urged the U.S. Supreme...
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Leaked Documents Reveal Managers Struggling to Manage Diverse Teams
Target uses theoretical scenarios to teach its supervisors how to deal with, for example, workers who are scared of Muslims, or Latino employees who blame supervisor criticism on racism, and many other...
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Carolinas Supplier Development Chief Tackles Challenges
The Carolinas Minority Supplier Development Council can’t afford to do business as usual, according to the Charlotte Post. Eric Watson, the council’s new executive director, said the organization needs...
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Startup Culture’s Lack of Diversity Stifles Innovation
If you’re young and poor in America, odds are you use a smartphone. Back in 2010, Nielsen found that the majority of Americans 34 and under who made less than $35,000 owned smartphones. These...
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How Your Business Can Profit From the New Industrial Revolution
American manufacturing is poised to enter a new era of explosive growth – and your business can profit from it. That unequivocal message was delivered loud and clear at Walmart’s US Manufacturing...
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How You Can Gain Greater Access to Federal Contracts
SBA Deputy Administrator Marie Johns Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and, over the last two decades, small and new businesses have created two out of every three net new jobs in the...
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Access to Capital is Still a Challenge for Minority Business Enterprises
In the current financial environment, access to capital is as much an issue today as it was in 1969 when the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) was established. For new businesses, especially...
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Start Small, Grow Towards Financing Your Business
If banks turn down your request for financing, consider a factor “I need financing for my business; where do I start?” The answer can depend on where your business is in its life cycle, according to...
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