As the Sunday Boston Globe reported, 14 local machers have joined forces to create a modern-day version of Boston’s vaunted Vault, a power-player business organization that flexed its corporate muscle in the ’50s and ’60s.

Formally known as the Coordinating Committee, the Vault consisted of 25 business leaders from downtown Boston who operated secretively and wielded great influence over public affairs through its policy positions and behind-the-scenes advocacy.

Cut to the current incarnation:

The executives . . .  have formed the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership. They include Raytheon Co. CEO William Swanson, Liberty Mutual’s Edmund Kelly, and Staples Inc.boss Ronald L. Sargent. The group has hired Dan O’Connell, the former state secretary of housing and economic development under Governor Deval Patrick, as its president.

“We believe there’s been a dilution in the business voice in the Commonwealth,’’ said the group’s chairman and cofounder, John Fish, chief executive of Suffolk Construction Co. in Boston. “We believe the business community can add tre mendous value to government. When it comes to creating jobs, we can offer a healthy perspective.’’

Healthy perspective?

The Massachusetts Competitive Partnership consists of 13 men and one woman.

All white.

Are you kidding me?

Coincidentally, Sunday’s Globe also included an op-ed by my Boston University colleague Bob Zelnick about “the so-called ‘under-representation’ of tenure-track minorities at leading institutions of higher learning.”

As part of his argument, Zelnick wrote this:

Some problems of under-representation barely concern us. Whites in the NBA, for example; ditto with blacks in the Metropolitan Opera, or for that matter, the Grand Old Opry.

Or, for further matter apparently, Boston’s corporate power structure.