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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.


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Jerk Running Ferry To Fire Island Not Up On The Celebs Of Financial Reform
This happened, too: http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/8615/killinit.jpg
Is that Wanda Sykes?
1,
I’m just going to take a guess and say Montreal, circa 2007. Fucking canadians.
LOL at number 2! Wanda Sykes!!!
So Webster is going to be running shit now?
@1: Smoking hot! Keep on rockin’ in the free world! That totally made my day. :)
There’s 4 black CEOs out of a group of 500. There’s no way they can get statistically significant results from that.
Maxine?
@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
black don’t crack (and it helps if you don’t smoke)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGz74Abberc
Stan “Babyface Nelson” O’Neal.
YoCoMaTSU
G G G G G G-UNIT!
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?
Kellogg School of Management. “We have money to burn on garbage research.”
“This company is the best man…it’s run by a baby faced negro.”
-Spalding
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.
Does penis size ever factor in? Just owndering.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUQTVdqgJOc
@17 LOL
Is that a picture Michele Obama’s penis?
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.
There is some serious homoscadacity here.
@22 I think its a picture of Obama
@7 – You had to go and do it didn’t you…. Next contestants up for the Rooney Rule, Fortune 500 companies.
@ 19, if it did, we’d have a lot more black ceos
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?
@27
what you mean is, if it did i would be the ceo of everything bitches!!!
Vic Garber, black face, as rehired head of MS. NICE!
Too bad, I was looking forward to seeing Lexington Steele at the healm of BAC.