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Starbucks Names Mellody Hobson Board Head, Making Her Only Black Female Chair Of S&P 500 Company

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Starbucks Names Mellody Hobson Board Head, Making Her Only Black Female Chair Of S&P 500 Company

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By Elana Lyn Gross via https://www.forbes.com/

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Starbucks will promote board Vice-Chair Mellody Hobson to chair in March, replacing the retiring Myron “Mike” Ullman, which will make her the only Black woman to lead the board of directors for an S&P 500 company, according to Bloomberg. 

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Hobson, who is the co-CEO of the asset management firm Ariel…

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