Ed Jones Jr.

In 1973, the Harvard Business Review published Edward Jones's personal account, “What It's Like to Be a Black Manager.” At the time he was a division manager at New York Telephone Company.

A decade later, HBR asked Jones to assess the progress of Black managers at corporations in the United States. In 1986, he wrote the HBR article, “Black Managers, The Dream Deferred.”

From New York Telephone he moved to AT&T, where he oversaw nationwide strategic planning for media markets and initiated the company's satellite strategy. In 1984, Jones formed Corporate Organizational Dynamics, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in organizational effectiveness.