• 13 May 2009 at 9:48 AM

So This Happened

By Bess Levin

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Black Fortune 500 CEOs with a “babyface” appearance are more likely to lead companies with higher revenues and prestige than black CEOs who look more mature, an upcoming study says.
In contrast with research showing that white executives are hindered by babyface characteristics, a disarming appearance can help black CEOs by counteracting the stigma that black men are threatening, according to the study from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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The results showed that black CEOs who rated high on the babyface scale worked for companies that ranked higher in the Fortune 500 and had higher annual revenues than blacks with more mature faces. The reverse was true for whites — the more babyfaced CEOs tended to work for companies that ranked lower and had less annual revenue.

Babyface Look Can Help Black CEOs [MSNBC]

Comments (31)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 9:49 AM

    This happened, too: http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/8615/killinit.jpg

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 9:50 AM

    Is that Wanda Sykes?

  3. 3
    Posted by Lowly Assistant | May 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM

    1,
    I’m just going to take a guess and say Montreal, circa 2007. Fucking canadians.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM

    LOL at number 2! Wanda Sykes!!!

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM

    So Webster is going to be running shit now?

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 9:57 AM

    @1: Smoking hot! Keep on rockin’ in the free world! That totally made my day. :)

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:02 AM

    There’s 4 black CEOs out of a group of 500. There’s no way they can get statistically significant results from that.

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:04 AM

    Maxine?

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:05 AM

    @7
    Don’t bother pointing out the obvious. This just gives the tools here an avenue to vent about the 4 jobs at fortune 500 firms that they missed out on.
    Dead Guy From Delaware

  10. 10
    Posted by Investorcluzo | May 13, 2009 at 10:06 AM

    black don’t crack (and it helps if you don’t smoke)!

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:10 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGz74Abberc

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:10 AM

    Stan “Babyface Nelson” O’Neal.

  13. 13
    Posted by Anal_yst | May 13, 2009 at 10:11 AM

    YoCoMaTSU

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:13 AM

    G G G G G G-UNIT!

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM

    well obama is ceo of like 10 companies and lets not for get the Fed..is he a babyface? Cause I feel threatened.
    In similar news is this why AOL/TW sucks to all hell and the fired that asshole? Is this why AMEX sucks?

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:21 AM

    Kellogg School of Management. “We have money to burn on garbage research.”

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:25 AM

    “This company is the best man…it’s run by a baby faced negro.”
    -Spalding

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:32 AM

    I love that the main criteria for the survey is whether or not the CEO has a “babyface” and 7 wants to say its not statistically significant based on a small sample size.

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM

    Does penis size ever factor in? Just owndering.

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUQTVdqgJOc

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:43 AM

    @17 LOL

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:47 AM

    Is that a picture Michele Obama’s penis?

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM

    Hmmm, was Billy Ray Valentine “baby-faced” or not and did that have any causation as to the subsequent performance of Duke and Duke Commodities Brokers? Sounds like Mortimer and Randolph need to have a followup bet.

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    There is some serious homoscadacity here.

  25. 25
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    @22 I think its a picture of Obama

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM

    @7 – You had to go and do it didn’t you…. Next contestants up for the Rooney Rule, Fortune 500 companies.

  27. 27
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM

    @ 19, if it did, we’d have a lot more black ceos

  28. 28
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 1:04 PM

    See film: “Putney Swopes” (starring Robert Downey, Sr., the crackhead’s father)
    Does Babyface, husband of L.A. Reid, ex-manager of TLC, count as a CEO?

  29. 29
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    @27
    what you mean is, if it did i would be the ceo of everything bitches!!!

  30. 30
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 9:07 PM

    Vic Garber, black face, as rehired head of MS. NICE!

  31. 31
    Posted by guest | May 13, 2009 at 10:47 PM

    Too bad, I was looking forward to seeing Lexington Steele at the healm of BAC.

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