Jamie Dimon Among Fortune 500 CEOs Defying Diversity Backlash

Executives at Fortune 500 companies from JPMorgan Chase to Cigna Healthcare are reassuring investors that they remain committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion principles, even as mounting attacks on DEI erode certain programs.

“It’s good for business; it’s morally right; we’re quite good at it; we’re successful,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said at a Council of Institutional Investors conference this week in Brooklyn, New York, explaining that it makes sense for the financial institution to reach out to the Black, LGBTQ, Hispanic, disabled and veteran communities.

The statements come as conservative activists target a range of corporate diversity efforts ...