COMPANIES FOR
DIVERSITY
No. 43 ERNST & YOUNG
Steve Howe,
Americas Area
Managing Partner
Allan Mark,
Americas Director,
Diversity Strategy
and Development
Specialty Lists:
No. 2 on the Top 10 Companies
for Asian Americans
No. 5 on the Top 10 Companies
for GLBT Employees
No. 9 on the Top 10 Companies
for People With Disabilities
Industry: Auditing, Accounting, Tax
Main Competitors: Deloitte & Touche,
KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers
U.S. Headquarters: New York, N. Y.
Number of U.S. Employees:
26, 165
Annual Revenue: $18.4 billion
of Operations Outside U.S.:
77
WHY IT’S ON THE TOP 50: Strong
CEO Commitment and Corporate
Communications make this Big
Four company a diversity leader.
DIVERSITY STRENGTHS: Steve Howe,
the Americas area managing partner
(who functions as the CEO in the
United States), chairs the diversity
council ( 54 percent of Top 50
CEOs do this) and appoints members of the council ( 60 percent of
Top 50 CEOs do this). All managers
participate in the mentoring program (the Top 50 average is 32 percent). The company has strong
work/life benefits and employee-resource groups.
RECENT DIVERSITY SUCCESS: This
past year, Ernst & Young invited
Mitchell & Titus, the nation’s largest
African-American-owned accounting
company, to join the Ernst & Young
global organization.
No. 44 BAUSCH & LOMB
Specialty Lists:
No. 7 on the Top 10 Companies
for Latinos
Industry: Healthcare, Consumer
Products
Main Competitors: Alcon, CIBA
Vision, Vistakon
U.S. Headquarters: Rochester, N. Y.
Number of U.S. Employees:
3,964
Annual Revenue: $2.4 billion
of Operations Outside U.S.:
60
DIVERSITY STRENGTHS: The company has strong employee-resource
groups and work/life benefits.
Bausch & Lomb also has a long
history of philanthropic contributions to traditionally underserved
groups, including GLBT, black and
Latino organizations.
Ronald L. Zarrella,
Chairman and CEO
WHY IT’S ON THE TOP 50: On the
Top 50 for the last four years,
Bausch & Lomb is consistently
strong in all four areas measured:
CEO Commitment, Human
Capital, Corporate Communications
and Supplier Diversity.
RECENT DIVERSITY SUCCESS: The
company presented its third annual
Supplier Diversity Recognition
Awards to three suppliers and one
employee during a ceremony in
March. The awards recognize significant contributions made by suppliers and employees toward building
relationships with diverse suppliers,
including minority- and women-owned enterprises.
Clayton H. Osborne,
Vice President of
Global Diversity,
Organizational
Effectiveness, and
Chief Privacy Officer
