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The Factors That Lead to a Pay Premium for Women
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Run Meetings That Are Fair to Introverts, Women, and Remote Workers
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If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired
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Why Hiring for Cultural Fit Can Thwart Your Diversity Efforts
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We’re Making the Wrong Case for Diversity in Silicon Valley
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Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity
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What Companies Can Do When Work and Religion Conflict
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The Best Entrepreneurs Think Globally, Not Just Digitally
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The Biases That Punish Racially Diverse Teams
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Creating a Culture Where Employees Speak Up
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How Managers Can Promote Healthy Discussions About Race
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Diversity Policies Rarely Make Companies Fairer, and They Feel Threatening to White Men
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How to Signal That Your Company Cares About Diversity
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Why Men Have More Help Getting to the C-Suite
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The Female Soldiers Who’ve Already Joined Special Ops Teams
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How to Make Your Workplace Safe for Transgender Employees
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Companies Drain Women’s Ambition After Only 2 Years
Gender Digital ArticleBut men’s ambition doubles. -
The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out of STEM
Gender Digital ArticleA new study looks at race as well as gender. -
Training Police Departments to Be Less Biased
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Women Directors Change How Boards Work
Gender Digital ArticleWhat Norway is learning.
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If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired
Diversity ResearchBut if there are two, her odds go way up. -
Run Meetings That Are Fair to Introverts, Women, and Remote Workers
Meetings Digital ArticleThree groups that are often overlooked. -
How Diversity Can Drive Innovation
Innovation Magazine ArticleMost managers accept that employers benefit from a diverse workforce, but the notion can be hard to prove or quantify, especially when it comes to measuring how diversity affects a firm’s ability to innovate. But new research provides compelling evidence that diversity unlocks innovation and drives market growth—a finding that should intensify efforts to ensure […] -
Creativity and the Role of the Leader
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Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMost managerial work happens through talk--discussions, meetings, presentations, negotiations. And it is through talk that managers evaluate others and... -
Managing Multicultural Teams
Cross-cultural management HBR BestsellerTeams whose members come from different nations and backgrounds place special demands on managers—especially when a feuding team looks to the boss for help with a conflict. -
Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity
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Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDiversity efforts in the workplace have been undertaken with great goodwill, but, ironically, they often end up fueling tensions. They rarely spur the... -
Diversity Training Doesn’t Work
Diversity Digital Article“We’ve got another lawsuit,” my friend and client Lana* told me over the phone. “Really?” I was honestly surprised. “What about all that diversity training everyone went through?” “Well, apparently we need to do it again.” Lana was the head of Human Resources for Bedia, a company in the media industry that felt, at times, […] -
Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBusiness leaders send a powerful message when they make a commitment to diversity that goes beyond rhetoric. But what motivates them to do so, and how... -
Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women
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Diversity Policies Rarely Make Companies Fairer, and They Feel Threatening to White Men
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How to Make Your Workplace Safe for Transgender Employees
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The Costs of Racial Color Blindness
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What Executives Should Remember
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Training Police Departments to Be Less Biased
Organizational culture Digital ArticleAn interview with an expert who’s been working with police departments in American cities. -
Report Card on Diversity: Lessons for Business from Higher Education
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAmerican institutions of higher learning have long played a disproportionate role in supplying leadership talent to the world's business and professional... -
Masters of the Multicultural
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleChief diversity officers, in new roles, foster innovation and generate revenues, writes author Frans Johansson. -
Fear of Being Different Stifles Talent
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAt work, many executives feel pressured to conform to the mainstream and to hide any signs of belonging to a minority group. A new study indicates that... -
Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team
Diversity Digital ArticleA CEO shares what he’s learned about diversity.
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A.P. Moller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of Maersk's talent management... -
Henry Tam and the MGI Team
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95Within a short time frame, seven diverse team members assemble to write a business plan for a new company and struggle to define their roles, make decisions... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Across Cultures (with featured article "Cultural Intelligence" by P. Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski)
24.95Put an end to miscommunication and inefficiency--and tap into the strengths of your diverse team. If you read nothing else on managing across cultures,... -
SG Cowen: New Recruits
Organizational Development Case Study8.95Chip Rae, director of recruiting at SG Cowen, must decide which recruits to keep after the final interview process for new outside associate hires. Along... -
Rodan + Fields Dermatologists
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95The case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The company is trying... -
Karen Leary (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95Describes the evolution of the working relationship of Karen Leary, a new manager of a Merrill Lynch retail branch, and Ted Chung, a new financial consultant... -
Growing Managers: Moving from Team Member to Team Leader
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95This case describes a newly promoted middle manager in a global, multi-cultural organization who is challenged by a number of factors in the workplace... -
Note on Team Process
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95When tasks are highly complex, demand a diversity of skills, or require a commitment from the involved parties, teams are usually the most effective way... -
BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver for Success
Organizational Development Case Study14.00In July 2014, the Global Executive Committee (GEC) for BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, held a two-day off-site meeting to discuss the state... -
Shifting the Diversity Climate: The Sodexo Solution
Organizational Development Case Study8.95This case profiles the evolution of Sodexo's diversity initiative. Diversity became a key priority for Sodexo, North America in 2001 after a class-action... -
Building an Effective Global Business Team
Organizational Development Case Study8.95Mastering the management of a global business team calls for confronting several unique challenges that tend to exacerbate the more common problems facing... -
Yvette Hyater-Adams and Terry Larsen at CoreStates Financial Corp.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95Yvette Hyater-Adams, senior VP of CoreStates Bank, and CEO Terry Larsen reflect on their five-year mentor-protege relationship. They describe how building... -
A New Team Face
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95A marketing team, asked to compile a marketing deck in response to an urgent request by the head of a business, has completed the task. Still the team... -
Laura Wollen and ARPCO, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95Laura Wollen, a group marketing director for ARPCO, Inc., must decide whether to recommend a high performance product manager for a choice position overseas.... -
JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool
Organizational Development Case Study8.95By the spring of 2014, the pilot had come to an end for JPMorgan Chase's ReEntry Program, a program designed for women coming back to the workforce after... -
Lotus Development Corp.: Spousal Equivalents (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95A group of Lotus employees propose extending all health care and other benefits to the spousal equivalents of lesbian and gay employees. The vice president... -
Leaving
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95A company supervisor listens to an employee, an African American woman, announce she is leaving the company and tries to understand the situation. -
Overhead Reduction Task Force
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95A middle manager is about to meet with his boss to discuss her request that he head up a task force to determine how overhead can be reduced by 20%. He... -
Hiring Successful Professionals: One Process-Multiple Goals
Organizational Development Case Study8.95The best hiring practices help professional firms attract successful employees, equip newcomers with critical support networks, increase the firm's diversity... -
Millennium Media, Inc. and John Voorenberg
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95Millenium Media's CEO reviews the company diversity report and considers the challenges of maintaining a diverse workforce in light of the news that three...