This Black Woman’s Business is on the Cusp of $3 Billion in Revenues. Here’s How She Did It
Janice Bryant Howroyd, the first black woman to build a billion-dollar business, talks about her new book and the plans for her company to reach...
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Black Enterprise Unveils Nation’s Largest Black-Owned Businesses For 2018
One word describes the performance of the nation's largest black-owned businesses last year: Uneven. Some advanced. Others floundered. All, however, sought the best formula for...
Billion-dollar Business Owner Janice Bryant Howroyd Shares Tips On Nurturing Small Businesses
Janice Bryant Howroyd, first African American woman to build a billion-dollar business, shares how her family values have contributed to the way she nurtured and...
Our 2017 List of Nation’s Largest Black Businesses Offer Strategies to Grow Your Business
For 45 years, the BE 100s—the nation's largest black businesses—have demonstrated enduring qualities of fortitude, dexterity, ingenuity, and, yes, swagger. Throughout it all, one word...
Our 2017 List of Nation’s Largest Black Businesses Offer Strategies to Grow Your Business
For 45 years, the BE 100s—the nation's largest black businesses—have demonstrated enduring qualities of fortitude, dexterity, ingenuity, and, yes, swagger. Throughout it all, one word...
Billion-Dollar Businesswoman Receives Top Award
Watch the billion dollar businesswoman, Janice Bryant Howroyd, be honored with the coveted A.G. Gaston Award at Entrepreneurs Summit....
BE 100s Billion-Dollar Club: Lessons from Top-Earning Black Business
Over the past four decades, only eight black-owned companies have surpassed $1 billion in revenues. Meet the companies that made it into that exclusive BE...
Scale is King: Top Lessons From Nation’s Largest Black Businesses
What will boost your business' bottom line? Learn from the top black-owned businesses in the nation on how to scale up....
Preview ‘B.E. Business Report’: The Unyielding Spirit of Act-1 CEO Janice Bryant Howroyd
Host Caroline Clarke recently caught-up with Act-1 Group CEO Janice Bryant Howroyd to learn how she keeps her competitive edge....
Service Leadership
In 30 years Janice Bryant Howroyd has created a billion-dollar juggernaut using a business model around one specific area: work. Asserts Bryant Howroyd: “Work is...