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What
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SAID
Chief Diversity Officer,
American Express, No. 13 in The
DiversityInc Top 50 Companies
for Diversity®
“I’ve never received more e-mails than
when we announced same-sex domestic-partner benefits. I answered every single
one of them personally and we met with
groups, and over time we have gotten an
acceptance of what we did and why we
did it, in some cases very begrudgingly.
But nothing we did moved our diversity
further along.”
CLAY JONES, Chairman, President
and CEO of Rockwell Collins, one of
DiversityInc’s 25 Noteworthy Companies
“Each year, we identify 50
rising seventh-graders in each
of our four hometowns (as part
of the Rutgers Future Scholars
Program) and we tell them, ‘If
you are admitted to Rutgers five
years from now, and we’ll do
everything we can to help you,
you will go for free.’”
DR. RICHARD MCCORMICK,
President of Rutgers University f ’
“Last year, I found myself
in a very challenging
place when the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints supported the ballot
initiative to ban same-sex
marriage in California.
Many people thought that
as a member of our church I
and Marriott International
also supported the
initiative. We did not.”
J. W. (BILL) MARRIOTT JR.,
Chairman and CEO of
Marriott International,
No. 4 in the DiversityInc Top 50
“Everyone who say executive says that Tell [me] about a ti the principles, a tim to power, and a tim the rights of someb ent than you, a time these principles we
JOHN ROBINSON, Chief Diversity Officer, U.S. Department of State
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