Workplace Diversity
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Corporate diversity chiefs are making an effort to include people who may have felt left out—including white men. And they’re looking to justify programs by showing bottom-line results.
The key is to take bias out of the hiring and promotion process instead of trying to take it out of the person.
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CEOs hired from outside a company are more likely to have poor business performance and short tenures if their new employer’s board is more diverse than corporate boards they previously served, a study finds.
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Several Silicon Valley technology companies have delayed releasing their annual diversity reports as the industry struggles to show progress in adding more women and minorities to their ranks.
Going by the compensation of China's top state-company executives, it helps to be big and sprawling—and it hurts to be too focused on making steel.
Marketers like Budweiser and 84 Lumber took some heat for airing Super Bowl ads on controversial social and political topics. But so far there’s no evidence of a serious backlash against any advertisers.
The sessions can cause a lot of stress. Here’s how to get the message across without alienating people.
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Women represent the strongest internal contenders for the corner office at a small but growing number of major U.S. companies. Their ultimate success could produce an unprecedented number of female chief executives.
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At Federated Department Stores, Phyllis Sewell rose to senior vice president, responsible for research and planning, and served on the boards of other big companies. She became a mentor for other women in business. Mrs. Sewell died Dec. 26 on her 86th birthday.
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As Chicago gears up to hire 1,000 police officers to combat its swelling homicide rate, the city is hoping to boost minority officers to win support from communities distrustful of law enforcement.
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No white males need apply for an opening on the state bar’s board. Those seats are reserved for minorities.
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American fast-food chains have become an unlikely source of female employment and empowerment in India, a country where traditionally most women are kept from working outside the home.
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Private equity firms and their portfolio companies in the U.K. need to improve transparency and timeliness of annual reports and disclosures to meet the industry standards or face the risk of being named for lack of compliance.
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Companies hoping to boost financial performance and solve the gender pay gap could solve those issues all at once by hiring a woman leader.
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Only 4% of those investors in a survey ranked diversity as one of their top concerns, citing economic conditions and portfolio-company revenue growth higher on the list, according to the LinkedIn diversity report.
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The plaintiff, former managing director Lisa Lee, will be a consultant to the firm on issues of gender balance and diversity.
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A group of influential women in the tech industry on Tuesday launched a tool to better measure and increase diversity in technology, an area where they say not enough progress has been made.
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Chamath Palihapitiya has established himself as one of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley—and surely the most abrasive—partly by shaming his own industry for its acknowledged lack of diversity.
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Some businesses have concluded that voicing support isn’t enough. They also have to set discrete goals.
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