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...A pragmatist, he golfed with George W Bush and served with Fink on Donald Trump’s economic advisory council....
...Alison Mass and George Lee have left the group but will remain at the bank in their other roles, The Wall Street Journal reports....
...Frazier was one of only a handful of African-American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies, and used his position to speak out against the killing of George Floyd in 2020....
...Tens of millions of buffalo, as the American writer Ian Frazier put it in his classic travelogue on the Great Plains, “disappeared up the tracks like water up a straw”....
...It has been two years since the police murder of George Floyd on an otherwise unremarkable street corner in Minneapolis, and still the protesters come....
...I admire IBM’s former CEO Ginni Rometty and Merck’s Ken Frazier for taking on the systemic barriers faced by black employees without college degrees....
...Former State Street boss Jay Hooley, who has sat on the board of ExxonMobil since 2020, will replace outgoing Exxon board member Kenneth Frazier as lead independent director....
...Mr Frazier is one of only a handful of African-American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies, and spoke out against the killing of George Floyd last year....
...The scene of Floyd’s death was so appalling that 17-year-old Darnella Frazier stopped to film it....
...Almost a year after the killing of George Floyd sparked a wave of pledges by US executives to do more to address racial injustices, their commitment is now being questioned....
...Darnella Frazier, who was 17 years old when she filmed the murder, was later honoured with a special citation by the Pulitzer Prize board....
...The murder of George Floyd, a black man killed by a white police officer last May, abruptly changed that, putting the phrase into the mouths of the country’s top executives and forcing them to consider their...
...Darnella Frazier, who filmed the incident as a 17-year-old student, told jurors that she lies awake at night apologising to Floyd for not physically intervening to save him....
...The new statement was placed as an advertisement in US newspapers by the Black Economic Alliance, a group of top African-American executives including Ken Frazier of Merck & Co, Ken Chenault, the former...
...Two leading black executives — Ken Frazier of Merck and Ken Chenault, former head of American Express — led much of Saturday’s discussion, after having organised a public call last month from 72 senior black...
...At 8am on Monday, Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of drugmaker Merck, used an appearance on America’s main business TV network to address the killing of George Floyd....
...Bastian says he was guided by conversations with Kenneth Frazier, retiring chief executive at pharmaceutical group Merck....
...(Literary Hub) “When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad” Darnella Frazier is the teenager who shot the viral video of Floyd’s death last May....
...Brands are facing growing pressure to speak out about racism as surveys show that the killing of George Floyd has prompted a sharp shift in US consumer attitudes about a subject many marketers had long sought...
...In a separate CNBC interview, however, Merck CEO Ken Frazier said he did not believe reparations could get through America’s political system....
...When protests erupted in the US in response to the killing of George Floyd on May 25, the anger over police brutality was also fuelled by a sense of simmering injustice over the impact of coronavirus....
...But twice as many big company CEOs have given to Mr Biden’s campaign, MarketWatch calculated, led by Disney’s Bob Iger, Edward Breen of DuPont and Merck’s Ken Frazier....
...Even some pharmaceutical executives, like Ken Frazier, chief executive of Merck, have warned of the dangers of moving too quickly....
...As Ken Frazier of Merck told CNBC this week, there is a financial rationale too: “Business needs to go to the seat of government not only for its own economic self interest in the short term but also to...
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