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The DiversityInc 2007 Top 50 Companies for Diversity

Overview of the 2007 List


The Top 50: The Nation's Most Credible Diversity Business List

A total of 317 companies competed in The 2007 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® ranking, a 100 percent increase over the last three years and a 24 percent increase over last year.

The Methodology

Companies earn their spots based on their responses to more than 200 detailed questions on human capital, CEO commitment, corporate communications and supplier diversity. Based on seven years of surveys and statistical analysis, the questions are increasingly sophisticated and discerning.




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Click to watch the video interview with Richard Macedonia, CEO and president of Sodexho, No. 13 on the Top 50



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Features
19 The 2007 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity
As competition intensifies, these 50 companies demonstrate remarkable and consistent strength in the four critical areas of diversity management: CEO Commitment, Human Capital, Corporate Communications and Supplier Diversity.

20 Methodology
How the Top 50 companies are determined.

22 Domestic-Partner Benefits: The Top 50 Litmus Test
For the first time, companies that do not have domestic-partner benefits for same-sex partners were disqualified from the Top 50.

24 Why You Need Diversity to Be Competitive
Real-life examples from the national leaders proving why diversity is crucial to their business success.
By Jennifer Millman

46 10 Top 50 CEOs Tell the Truth About Diversity
Frank answers from 10 men who believe diversity is essential to their success, both personally and professionally.
By Yoji Cole

60 The 2007 DiversityInc Top50 Companies for Diversity list

62 Profiles of the Top 10 Companies for Diversity

82 Profiles of Companies 11-50

122 The Specialty Lists

132 Which Presidential Campaign Is Worst for Diversity?
DiversityInc takes an unprecendented, nopartisan look at the campaign staffs of eight major contenders for presidnet. Three of them have extremely diverse staffs. One candidate has only white people on his campaign staff.
By Jennifer Millman

148 'Why I Need Domestic-Partner Benefits'
True stories of employees whose companies' policies on same-sex-partner benefits earned their loyalty.
By Mark Lowery


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