Amid a hiring spree that boosted Amazon's headcount by 71%, the company in 2017 loosened its definition of "executive" to include hundreds of employees it had previously reported as mid-level managers, expanding its executive ranks by 1,600% in one year.

Black executives from 26 different leading companies have recently joined together to form the Black Executive CMO Alliance (BECA).

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