HRC Blog

Best Places to Work 2014

December 10, 2013 by Maureen McCarty, HRC Associate Director of Digital Media

This year, an historic 304 major businesses – spanning nearly ever industry and geography – scored 100 percent on HRC’s Corporate Equality Index and the coveted distinction of “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.”

These companies adopted a full framework of LGBT inclusion in the workplace, further demonstrating corporate America’s commitment to LGBT workers.

Check out the full list of "Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality" below.

Advertising and Marketing

Digitas Inc.
Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.
Leo Burnett Company Inc.
MSLGGROUP Americas
Publicis Healthcare Communications
Publicis Inc.
Razorfish
Starcom MediaVest Group
Zenith Optimedia

Aerospace and Defense

Boeing Co.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Raytheon Co.

Airlines

AMR Corp. (American Airlines)
United Continental Holdings Inc.

Apparel, Fashion, Textiles, Dept. Stores

Levi Strauss & Co.
Nike Inc.

Automotive

Chrysler Group LLC
Ford Motor Co.
General Motors Co.
Nissan North America Inc.
Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc.
Volkswagen Group of America Inc.

Banking and Financial Services

American Express Co.
Ameriprise Financial Inc.
Bank of America Corp.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
Barclays
BlackRock
BMO Bankcorp Inc.
BNP Paribas
Capital One Financial Corp.
Charles Schwab Corp.
Citigroup Inc.
Credit Suisse USA Inc.
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. | The
Deutsche Bank
Discover Financial Services.
Eastern Bank Corp.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac)
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
HSBC - North America
Huntington Bancshares Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
KeyCorp
MasterCard Inc.
Moody's Corp.
Morgan Stanley
Northern Trust Corp.
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. | The
RBC Capital Markets LLC
RBC Wealth Management
SunTrust Banks Inc.
TD Bank, N.A.
Toyota Financial Services
U.S. Bancorp
UBS AG
Union Bank
Wells Fargo & Co.

Chemicals and Biotechnology

BASF Corp.
Dow Chemical Co.
E I. duPont de Nemours and Co. (Dupont)
Ecolab Inc.
Genentech Inc.
Monsanto Co.

Computer and Data Services

Automatic Data Processing Inc.
Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.
EMC Corp.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Tech Data Corp.

Computer Hardware and Office Equipment

Apple Inc.
Dell Inc.
Lexmark International Inc.
Xerox Corp.

Computer Software

CA Inc.
Electronic Arts Inc
Intuit Inc.
Microsoft Corp
Oracle Corp
salesforce.com Inc
SAP America Inc.
Symantec Corp.

Consulting and Business Services

A.T. Kearney Inc.
Accenture Ltd.
Aon Corp.
Bain & Co. Inc./ Bridgespan Group
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Boston Consulting Group
Deloitte LLP
Ernst & Young LLP
Huron Consulting Group Inc.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)
KPMG LLP
Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.
McKinsey & Co. Inc.
Navigant Consulting Inc.
Nielsen Co., The
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Thompson Reuters

Energy and Utilities

Exelon Corp.
PG&E Corp.
Portland General Electric Co.
Sempra Energy
Southern California Edison Co.

Entertainment and Electronic Media

AMC Entertainment Inc.
Sirius XM Radio Inc.
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
Time Warner Inc.
Viacom Inc.
Walt Disney Co.

Food, Beverages and Groceries

Brown-Forman Corp.
Campbell Soup Co.
Cargill Inc.
Coca-Cola Co.
Darden Restaurants Inc.
Delhaize America Inc.
Diageo North America
E&J Gallo Winery
General Mills Inc.
Kellogg Co.
Kraft Foods Inc.
Land O'Lakes Inc.
MillerCoors LLC
PepsiCo Inc. Safeway Inc.
Sodexo Inc.

Healthcare

Aetna Inc.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Cardinal Health Inc.
Carefusion Corp.
Group Health Cooperative
Group Healthe Permanente
Humana Inc. | Louisville, KY
Kaiser Permanente
McKesson Corp.
UnitedHealth Group Inc.

High-Tech/Photo/Science Equip.

Cisco Systems Inc.
Eastman Kodak Co.
Medtronic Inc.
Nokia Corp

Home Furnishing

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams

Hotels, Resorts and Casinos

Caesars Entertainment Corp.
Choice Hotels International Inc.
Hilton Worldwide Inc.
Hyatt Hotels Corp
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Inc.
Marriot International Inc.
MGM Resorts International
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Wyndham Worldwide Corp.
Wynn Resorts Ltd.

Insurance

AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah Insurance Exchange
AIG
AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Inc.
Chubb Corp.
CIGNA Corp.
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., The
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
ING North America Insurance Corp.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
MetLife Inc.
Nationwide
Progressive Corp., The
Prudential Financial Inc.
Sun Life Financial Inc. (U.S.)
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund

Internet

eBay Inc.
Groupon Inc.

Internet Services and Retailing

Google Inc.
Yahoo! Inc.

Law Firms

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Arent Fox LLP
Arnold & Porter LLP
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Brown Rudnick LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Carlton Fields PA
Chapman and Cutler LLP
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance US LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Davis Rice Tremaine LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Dentons US LLP
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
Dickstein Shapiro LLP
DLA Piper
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
Faegre & Benson LLP
Fenwick & West LLP
Fish & Richardson PC
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley Hoag LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
K&L Gates LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Littler Mendelson PC
Mayer Brown LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Nixon Peabody LLP
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Paul Hastings LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Schiff Hardin LLP
Sedgwick LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Squire Sanders
Stoel Rives LLP
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Thompson Coburn LLP
Thompson Hine LLP
Troutman Sanders LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP
Weil, Gotschal & Manges LLP
White & Case LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP

Manufacturing

Corning Inc.
Cummins Inc.
Danaher Corp. General Electric Co.
Herman Miller Inc.
Owens Corning
Rockwell Automation Inc.
United Technologies Corp.
Whirlpool Corp.

Mining and Metals

Alcoa Inc.

Miscellaneous

Sony Electronics Inc.

Oil and Gas

Chevron Corp.

Pharmaceuticals

Biogen Idec Inc.
Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corp
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Eli Lilly & Co.
GlaxoSmithKline LLC | Research
Johnson & Johnson
Merck & Co. Inc.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Pfizer Inc.

Publishing and Printing

Pearson Inc.

Real Estate, Commercial

CBRE, Inc.

Retail and Consumer Products

3M Co.
A|X Armani Exchange
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc.
Avon Products Inc.
Barnes & Noble Inc.
Best Buy Co. Inc.
Clorox Co.
GameStop Corp.
Gap Inc.
Limited Brands Inc.
Nordstrom Inc.
Office Depot Inc.
Procter & Gamble Co.
Replacements, Ltd.
Sears Holdings Corp.
Staples Inc.
Target Corp.
Unilever
Walgreen Co.