Diversity and inclusion

Like any corporate change, gender balance requires leadership.

What do the career prospects of female scientists, the general chaos of the mid-career managers’ life, the failure to adequately develop new cadres of leaders internally, and escalating CEO compensation have in common? Let me suggest that these are interrelated phenomena whose connections with one another may be poorly understood. Let’s start with female scientists. […]

Career-oriented women are increasingly flexing their spending muscle. Here’s how companies can reach these “Golden Misses.”

A look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education.

On this blog, I’ve speculated on the factors that lead to highly talented women dropping out of their once-chosen careers and thus not being available to take the next step, leading to one consequence that these folks are not available in the pool of candidates for top jobs. With this as backdrop, it was fascinating […]

Make it a business issue, not a diversity issue.

When an established consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) company introduces a new product, it faces a potentially make-or-break decision: how to brand it. Tying...

Covid-19 exposed wide inequities in health in the United States and around the world. But health disparities persisted long before the pandemic. In this...

Sex in the workplace doesn’t just hurt those parties involved. Sure, Mark Hurd’s recent scandal produced three obvious casualties: Mark Hurd, Hewlett Packard and its shareholders, and even, to an extent, Jodie Fisher. But in the barrage of press attention since the news broke, little mention has been made of a large group of other […]

Top female executives usually start out with pay comparable to their male counterparts', but a gap emerges and increases over the course of their tenure....

Most managerial work happens through talk--discussions, meetings, presentations, negotiations. And it is through talk that managers evaluate others and...

It’s still the channel with the highest ROI.

Don’t dwell on your differences.

It’s job hunting time for thousands of soon-to-be-graduates – and these members of Generation Y are proving to have some fairly specific approaches and preferences as they go about the search. For those of you who are trying to entice them to your firm, here’s a quick overview of what they’re looking for. And for […]

The visibility of female leaders makes a difference.

Shaking off the past means changing how we act.

New research finds that women are more likely to make big bets when important social issues are on the table.

Consider the principle behind blind taste tests.

What signals does your recruitment process send to applicants?

Researchers found that companies assume talented men will job hop to further their careers, while talented women will stay loyal.