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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
by David A. Thomas
Topic: Diversity
Former CEO Lou Gerstner established a diversity initiative that embraced differences instead of ignoring them. In this Harvard Business Review excerpt, professor David A. Thomas describes why IBM made diversity a cornerstone strategy.
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- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Racial Diversity Pays Off
by Martha Lagace
Topic: Diversity
...Diversity has been a buzzword in organizations for at least fifteen years. How much is really known about its effects on performance? HBS professors Robin Ely and David Thomas investigate.
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- 13 Feb 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Diversity in Innovation
by Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang
Topic: Diversity
This study discusses a systematic and persistent lack of female, Hispanic, and African American labor market participation in the innovation sector, through both entrepreneurs and the venture capitalists that fund them.
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- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
by Carmen Nobel
Topic: Diversity
Workplace policies regarding race, gender, and sexual orientation often are borne of studies that focus on the problem of discrimination—rather than on the benefits of a diverse workforce. HBS professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and David Thomas argue that focusing on the benefits of a diverse organization will lead to workplace policies that embrace diversity, instead of grudgingly accepting it or dancing around it.
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- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
by Julia Hanna
Topic: Diversity
Knitting together a diverse workforce into a common fabric is a difficult challenge for managers—and even more difficult for the workers themselves, say Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin Reid.
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- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
by Michael Blanding
Topic: Diversity
VC firms that score high in diversity among their partners also tend to be more profitable, according to Paul Gompers.
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- 16 Feb 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri
Topic: Diversity
A key question in organizations is whether there is an optimal balance between diversity and sameness within teams of workers. Findings from a field experiment within a nonprofit research organization based in Kenya suggest much of the tradeoff between diversity and sameness may come from the...
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- 26 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates
by Kristen Senz
Topic: Diversity
Many companies want to bring a wider variety of lived experiences to their workforces. However, research by Summer Jackson shows how hiring managers' fears of seeming transactional can ultimately undermine their diversity goals.
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- 09 Feb 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
- Working Knowledge
Black Business Leaders Series: Putting Diversity to Work
Re: Robin J. Ely
Topic: Diversity
In theory, most companies would love to diversify their workforce. In practice, hiring specifically to increase diversity can cause a variety of cultural problems within an organization. Professor Robin Ely discusses two case studies that train a critical lens on race-based and race-blind hiring.
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- 05 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations
by Lakshmi Ramarajan & David Thomas
Topic: Diversity
Considering that the topic of workplace diversity often garners unhappy discussions of prejudice, isolation, and conflict, it's not surprising that many researchers avoid the topic altogether. Only 5 percent of articles published in management journals from 2000-2008 included race or gender in...
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- 18 Jul 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
- Working Knowledge
Diversity and Inclusion at Mars Petcare: Translating Awareness into Action
Re: Katherine B. Coffman
Topic: Diversity
In 2020, the Mars Petcare leadership team found themselves facing critically important inclusion and diversity issues. Unprecedented protests for racial justice in the U.S. and across the globe generated demand for substantive change, and Mars Petcare's 100,000 employees across six continents were...
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- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
- Working Knowledge
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
by James Heskett
Topic: Diversity
SUMMING UP: Diversity in business leadership is certainly an enviable social goal, but does it improve company performance? James Heskett's readers look for the research evidence.
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- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
- Working Knowledge
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
by James Heskett
Topic: Diversity
Does Gender Diversity in Management Enhance Performance? Why? A variety of explanations for the positive correlation between gender diversity and better business performance found in a recent McKinsey study were advanced in responses to this month’s column. Possible explanations for the findings
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- 01 Feb 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
- Working Knowledge
Making Diverse Leadership a Priority at Whittier College
Re: Debora L. Spar
In 2018, Linda Oubré was selected as the president of Whittier College in Los Angeles County – the first Black woman to serve in that role. The student body had been slowly evolving to represent the growing diversity of the surrounding area, but the college’s leadership remained largely white and...
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- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
by Sean Silverthorne
Topic: Diversity
firms tend to thrive only in parts of the world that embrace gender diversity, like Europe. Q1. You mention in the paper that most research on diversity and performance tends to focus on a specific industry or country—and the results of those studies have not been consistent. Can you describe the
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- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
by Lane Lambert
Topic: Diversity
create an opportunity for executives to reshape their management ranks by advancing women and people of color, allowing companies to address racial inequities and build more diverse workforces, Zhang says. Zhang’s study, Shaking Things Up: Disruptive Events and Inequality, will be published in a
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- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
by Michael Blanding
Topic: Diversity
men to the bench. “There was plenty of evidence showing Trump wasn’t particularly pro-diversity,” says Chang, noting that Trump had issued a memo telling federal agencies to halt diversity trainings because they were “un-American.” “It was interesting that he chose to nominate a woman. Did the fact
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- 18 Oct 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Racial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives?
by Modupe Akinola & David A. Thomas
What organizational factors are needed for racial diversity initiatives to succeed? While diversity continues to grow in importance in organizations, very little research has focused on the processes that underlie diversity management. Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas propose a study intended to...
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- 16 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Amount and Diversity of Digital Emotional Expression Predicts Happiness
by Laura Vuillier, Alison Wood Brooks, June Gruber, Rui Sun, Michael I. Norton, Matthew James Samson, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Paul Piff, Sarah Fan, Jordi Quoidbach, Charles Gorintin, Pete Fleming, Arturo Bejar, and Dacher Keltner
Emoticons might seem trivial because they require just the tap of a finger, but this study shows how emoticons make a difference in overall emotion expression. People use emoticons to highlight the emotions they intend to convey, and emoticons also serve as...
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- 31 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change
by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis
Topic: Diversity
...Diversity and inclusion efforts that focus on business outcomes alone rarely address root causes. Jamillah Bowman Williams, a visiting fellow at the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society, offers tips for companies navigating their next stage of the DEI journey.
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