By Katherine Johnson It’s more clear than ever that putting diversity and inclusion at the heart of an organization strengthens it at every level. Diversity has been conclusively shown to promote innovation, drive higher revenue, and improve employee engagement as companies strive to hire, include, and give equal value to employees from all backgrounds and circumstances. Inclusion within a […]Read More
By NIsh Parikh Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is an integral part of most organizations’ strategy and vision. During normal times, it is an area that businesses work on assiduously to improve their brand and bottom line. However, with a global public health crisis impacting the economy and employment on an unprecedented scale, it is easy […]Read More
By Candice Morgan When I joined venture capital firm GV in January as the firm’s first diversity and inclusion partner, I was excited by the opportunity to help with one of the industry’s biggest challenges: ensuring underrepresented and underestimated founders gain access to capital. Currently only 1% of VC funding goes to Black founders and 2% to […]Read More
By Jennica Webster It has been more than 50 years since the passage of legislation providing equal employment protections for women, racial/ethnic, and religious groups; 40 years since these protections were extended to pregnancy, and 30 years since they were extended to people with disabilities. Beyond legal protections, the business case for diversity and inclusion […]Read More
By Michael Slepian Diversity brings many benefits to organizations — but it is not enough on its own. An organization with a diverse workforce is not necessarily an inclusive one. Diversity efforts now often fall under the banner of “Diversity and Inclusion” for this reason, but new research in a forthcoming issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science shows […]Read More
By Stephanie Vozza Many organizations are looking inside their own walls following protests against police brutality and racism across the country. Creating an effective policy, however, isn’t simple, says Michael Bach, author of Birds of All Feathers: Doing Diversity and Inclusion Right. “D&I, when it’s done effectively, isn’t a program, but a shift in how organizations […]Read More
By Carolina Milanesi Last week, Lenovo and Intel Corporation published the first chapter from a global study, titled “Diversity and Inclusion in the Global Workplace,” on how people across the globe view Diversity and Inclusion both in their private and professional life.This first dataset sheds some light on how 5000 respondents across the US, UK, Germany, Brazil and China […]Read More
By Jonathan H. Westover, Ph.D In previous articles, I discussed the value of diversity in the workplace and the importance of creating a workplace culture of belonging, diversity and inclusivity. More inclusive organizations are better able to attract and retain talent, experience greater customer loyalty, have greater productivity and are more innovative. For these reasons alone (and the fact that it is the […]Read More
By Beth A. Livingston and Tina R. Opie Last fall, we began a conversation on an episode of HBR’s “Women at Work” podcast about an important, though difficult, topic: how to forge deep and meaningful relationships at work between women of varying races or ethnicities, with the goal of collective advancement in the workplace. This idea of shared sisterhood “allows […]Read More
By Paula Morgan For years, people with disabilities have been denied work from home (WFH) accommodations, with skeptical employers citing that WFH would decrease productivity, increase security risks, and cause undue hardship on an organization – the threshold that defines an accommodation as “unreasonable.” But now, because the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the American workforce out […]Read More
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