The DiversityInc Top 50 List
1. Sodexo
2. PricewaterhouseCoopers
3. Kaiser Permanente
4. Ernst & Young
5. MasterCard Worldwide
6. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
7. Procter & Gamble
8. Prudential Financial
9. Accenture
10. Johnson & Johnson
11. Deloitte
12. Merck & Co.
13. AT&T
14. Abbott
15. Cummins
16. Marriott International
17. Medtronic
18. Kraft Foods
19. Aetna
20. Target
21. Colgate-Palmolive
22. Cox Communications
23. KPMG
24. IBM
25. Wells Fargo 26. General Mills
27. ADP
28. Pfizer
29. Northrop Grumman
30. New York Life
31. BASF
32. Kellogg Company
33. Time Warner
34. Rockwell Collins
35. Eli Lilly and Company
36. Allstate Insurance Company
37. Dell
38. The Coca-Cola Company
39. The Walt Disney Company
40. WellPoint
41. TIAA-CREF
42. Monsanto
43. TD Bank
44. Microsoft
45. Bristol-Myers Squibb
46. Wyndham Worldwide
47. Verizon Communications
48. Toyota Motor North America
49. Comcast
50. jcpenney
A total of 893 companies participated in the survey this year. There is no fee involved to participate and every company receives a free report card assessing its performance against all competitors.
The survey, now in its 14th year, leads to a detailed, empirically driven ranking based on four key areas of diversity management:
CEO Commitment: accountability for results, personal communications, visibility
Human Capital: five levels of management, promotions in and into management
Corporate and Organizational Communications: mentoring, resource groups, philanthropy, consistency/effectiveness of diversity-management initiatives
Supplier Diversity: spend with M/WBE companies, as well as companies owned by LGBT people, people with disabilities, veterans