New Brunswick, New Jersey-based multinational pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (a DiversityInc Hall of Fame company) has announced that its current Chairman and CEO Alex Gorsky will be transitioning to the new position of Executive Chairman. In his place, Joaquin Duato, the company’s current Executive Committee Vice Chairman, will become…
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Leaders from DC, Corporate America and Around the Globe Condemn Trump for Attempted Government Coup; Congress Approves Measure to Bolster Diversity Within the Military; and More
Leaders from D.C., corporate America and around the globe condemn Trump for attempted government coup. Reaction to President Trump’s attempt at insurrection and a literal mob-enforced stealing of the vote has been swift and dramatic, ever since angry rioters and domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol building on the afternoon of…
Archived: Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson Alex Gorsky Receives DiversityInc's Inaugural Global Inclusive Leaders Award
At the 2018 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity event on May 1 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson Alex Gorsky received DiversityInc’s Inaugural Global Inclusive Leaders Award. Nearly 1,000 guests, including 24 CEOs and presidents and 15 chief human resource…
Archived: Johnson & Johnson Joins Coalition for the American Dream
Johnson & Johnson is No. 5 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list (Originally published on J&J.com) There’s a famous ambiguous illusion—thought to have originated on a German postcard in 1888, two years after Johnson & Johnson’s founding—that still plays tricks with people’s minds more than a century later. Take…
Archived: Jackie Robinson: MLB's First Black Player Honored on 70th Anniversary
Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s (MLB) color barrier when he made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Seventy years later, the franchise, now the Los Angeles Dodgers, unveiled a statue on Saturday honoring the trailblazer. Before the Dodgers’ game against the Arizona Diamondbacks,…
Archived: A Message From Johnson & Johnson's CEO About the U.S. Presidential Election
By Alex Gorsky, CEO and Chairman of Johnson & Johnson Alex Gorsky The presidential campaign in the United States is finally over, and the result stunned the experts and political establishment in America and around the world. Now that the confetti has fallen and the last political ads have finally…