![]() ![]() Journey will select 25 fellows each year, kicking off the program with a retreat, followed by monthly gatherings of fellows and mentors. “It’s about building bonds,” Easton said. “Because of who they are and their own journeys to the top,” Sellers said, “they know how to address the problem because they’ve lived it.” The new group connects 25 fellows with 25 champions, which include some of the country’s most influential executives such as Mary Barra of G.M., Mellody Hobson of Ariel Investments and Dina Powell McCormick of Goldman Sachs. ![]() Today, Sellers and Easton are announcing Journey, a nonprofit group aimed at addressing the “ pyramid effect,” in which the share of women shrinks as they rise up the corporate ranks. Now, Sellers and Nina Easton, who helped grow the franchise, are starting an initiative to ensure that there are more women who rise. When Pattie Sellers helped start Fortune’s list of the world’s most powerful women more than two decades ago, it served as a showcase of women at the top of their fields. That suggests that people are unfairly impugning the reputations of many executives, or that they have a bias toward the person who signs their paycheck.Įxclusive: Bringing more women to the top One curiosity is that while about half of people purport to trust C.E.O.s in general, two-thirds of people said they trusted the C.E.O. Three-quarters of respondents said they worried about “false information or fake news being used as a weapon.” Businesses and N.G.O.s fared better, with 45 and 50 percent of people believing those institutions are unifying forces, respectively.Īmong the most troubling findings was the sharp increase in respondents who said they were “convinced we’re being lied to by societal leaders.” More than 60 percent of people delivered this rebuke about government, business and news media leaders. Just 36 percent of people believed that the government was a unifying force in society, and 35 percent said the same about the news media. The report, released today, painted a dispiriting picture for institutionalists of all stripes: That’s according to the latest edition of a long-running survey by the public relations firm Edelman, which surveyed more than 36,000 people in 28 countries. tests could lead BlackRock to sell its holdings in a company: “Access to capital is not a right,” Fink wrote.ĭespite the repeated, public and sometimes catastrophic failings of big businesses in recent years, the general public still appears to have more faith in corporations than in governments or the news media. was crucial for BlackRock, after writing in 2020 that climate change would be a “defining factor” in its investment assessments. Reducing a company’s carbon footprint, for instance, ensures long-term viability, something investors and executives should care about, he wrote. “It is capitalism.” It was a rebuke to those who say that BlackRock’s new focus on environmental, social and corporate governance concerns, known as E.S.G., is either bowing to anti-business interests or merely marketing. Stakeholder capitalism “is not woke,’” Fink wrote in the 3,300-word letter. After years of pushing corporate America to look beyond profits and embrace a broader social purpose - which has attracted criticism from all corners - he is using his latest annual letter to C.E.O.s to clarify, and defend, his approach. of BlackRock, Larry Fink commands the attention of business leaders, thanks to the $10 trillion that his investment firm manages. ![]()
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