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How Mellody Hobson’s journey to co-CEO at $14.9 billion Ariel Investments began with a payphone call from a basement at Princeton
Ariel Investments, the first Black-owned mutual fund company in the U.S., was founded by John W. Rogers Jr. in 1983, when he was just 24 years old. He's now co-CEO along with Mellody Hobson ...
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Mellody Hobson on why more firms should embrace co-CEOs like Ariel Investments: ‘You have a shoulder to lean on’
“I tell people, I don't understand why there aren't more co-CEOs,” Mellody Hobson, co-CEO of Ariel ... the U.S. Ariel was founded in 1983 by John W. Rogers Jr. when he was just 24 years ...
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Mellody Hobson
A longtime advocate for closing the racial wealth gap, Hobson is a key leader and adviser of choice on race issues at some of the Fortune 500’s largest companies. On the board of JPMorgan Chase ...
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Longtime Starbucks board leader Mellody Hobson is retiring
Mellody Hobson, Starbucks’ lead independent director ... Alicia added a contributor role at Restaurant Dive and a senior contributor role at Forbes. Her work has appeared in publications around ...