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How to Close the Gender Gap
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMost companies say they're committed to advancing women into leadership roles. What they may fail to recognize, though, is that systemic barriers are... -
How Companies Should Set — and Report — DEI Goals
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleTargets must be detailed to create transparency, shared to induce accountability, and accompanied by action plans to promote change. -
Do Your DE&I Efforts Consider Age, Class, and Lived Experience?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIncluding these lenses alongside race, ethnicity, and gender can help your organization move toward more meaningful change. -
The Forgotten Dimension of Diversity
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWorkers who come from lower social-class origins in the United States are 32% less likely to become managers than those who come from higher social-class... -
The Costs of Racial "Color Blindness"
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePretending not to notice race for fear of appearing prejudiced actually has the opposite effect--others will perceive you as more biased. Research documenting... -
Overcoming Today's DEI Leadership Challenges
Organizational Development Big IdeaCorporate interest in and action on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), which had risen sharply following the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements,... -
We Need to Retire the Term "Microaggressions"
Organizational Development Digital ArticleTheir impact is anything but small. -
Non-Discrimination Laws Make U.S. States More Innovative
Gender Digital ArticleNew research shows banning LGBT discrimination leads to an increase in patents. -
Older Women Are Being Forced Out of the Workforce
Leadership & Managing People ResearchIt's harder for them to find jobs, too. -
How to Build an Intersectional Approach to Talent Management
Organizational Development Digital ArticleMany organizations now realize that their struggles with workplace culture and recruitment may stem from a monolithic approach to policies, processes,... -
Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTrans people often experience stigma and discrimination, hostility from others, and pressure to "manage" their identities in social settings, including... -
What It's Like to Be a Woman of Color in Architecture
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA recent study reveals the structural patterns of bias in the industry. -
In the Hot Finance Jobs, Women Are Still Shut Out
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDetailed, hard-to-compile data on private equity, venture capital, and real estate firms shows that the number of women in senior finance positions is... -
Why We Should Stop Saying "Underrepresented"
The case for a more accurate, research-backed alternative to describing socially marginalized communities. -
Is Your DEI Progress Undermined by Attention Inequality?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBias affects whose ideas are heard - and whose are given short shrift. -
Bringing Caste into the DEI Conversation
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAs companies increase their global footprint, they must also expand their definition of DEI. -
Research: How Anti-Asian Racism Has Manifested at Work in the Pandemic
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleResearchers interviewed professionals in the U.S. and Canada about their experiences in a variety of industries. -
What Needs to Change About DEI — and What Doesn’t
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleAs DEI faces social, political, and legal backlash, leaders need to take stock of their efforts. -
Do Your Employees Feel Safe Reporting Abuse and Discrimination?
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticlePeople won’t speak up if they don’t trust the process.
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Sol's ARC: Developing Inclusive Workplaces for Neurodiverse People
Management Case Study11.95View Details Sonali Saini was the founder of Sol's ARC, a nonprofit organization that worked to benefit neurodiverse individuals. She had just returned from a meeting... -
Crossing the Line: Don Imus and the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details On April 4, 2007, talk show host Don Imus, while chatting with his sidekicks on his morning radio program, referred to the Rutgers women's basketball... -
Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America: The Quest for a Model Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The... -
Kathryn McNeil (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Anti-Racist Leadership: Tools for Transforming Your Company Culture
Management Book499.00View Details In their book "Anti-Racist Leadership: How to Transform Corporate Culture in a Race-Conscious World," James D. White and Krista White lay out an action... -
Differences at Work: Alex (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In Differences at Work: Alex (A), HBS Case No. 9-408-011 Alex has been asked an inappropriate question by the interviewer at an interview for his dream... -
Kathryn McNeil (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Charles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old... -
West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. David Ansell, Darlene Hightower, and Ayesho Jaco, leaders of West Side United (WSU), a coalition of Chicago hospitals,... -
Nikki Brown: Caught between Career and Conscience
Management Case Study11.95View Details This field-based case puts students in the role of Nikki Brown, a Black female police officer at the St. Louis County Police Department (SLCPD). After... -
Subtle Biases and Covert Prejudice in the Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Subtle biases and covert prejudice affect interactions in the workplace. Subtle biases are automatically activated associations or stereotypes that relate... -
Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp. (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 1970 Xerox had a very progressive affirmative action program yet, once hired, black employees faced serious problems, due both to overt discrimination... -
Daka International, Inc. (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Describes the resolution to the dilemma raised in the (A) case. -
Differences at Work: Sameer (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details In Differences at Work: Sameer (B) HBS Case No. 9-609-054, Sameer leaves the firm at the summer's end without confronting his employer about the jokes... -
Ellen Moore (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Presents an edited transcript of questions that students asked Ellen Moore when she visited classes. Describes the decision Ellen Moore made and describes... -
Juhi Warrier: Driving the Diversity Agenda at Revital Pharma Inc.
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Juhi Warrier was a successful human resources (HR) professional with almost two decades of work experience across various industries. She had recently... -
Conflict at MRW: The New Employee's Pregnancy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details MRW is a courier firm based in Barcelona (Spain). In 2010, it was consolidating internationalization of its business. It is against this background that... -
Differences at Work: Ben (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In Differences at Work: Ben (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-012 one of Ben's professional colleagues unexpectedly makes an anti-Semitic remark during a casual... -
Uber: #WhatDoYouDo?
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This public-sourced case is based on a 2017 blog post by a former Uber employee, Susan Fowler, in which she was brutally honest about the sexual harassment,... -
African American Inequality in the United States
Leadership & Managing People Case StudyThis note describes how historical and on-going policies and practices that discriminate against African Americans led to present-day inequality. Topics... -
Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women
32.00View Details When it comes to mentoring, women face more barriers than men. Here's how men can help change that. Increasingly, new employees and junior members of...
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How to Close the Gender Gap
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMost companies say they're committed to advancing women into leadership roles. What they may fail to recognize, though, is that systemic barriers are... -
Sol's ARC: Developing Inclusive Workplaces for Neurodiverse People
Management Case Study11.95View Details Sonali Saini was the founder of Sol's ARC, a nonprofit organization that worked to benefit neurodiverse individuals. She had just returned from a meeting... -
Crossing the Line: Don Imus and the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details On April 4, 2007, talk show host Don Imus, while chatting with his sidekicks on his morning radio program, referred to the Rutgers women's basketball... -
How Companies Should Set — and Report — DEI Goals
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleTargets must be detailed to create transparency, shared to induce accountability, and accompanied by action plans to promote change. -
Do Your DE&I Efforts Consider Age, Class, and Lived Experience?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIncluding these lenses alongside race, ethnicity, and gender can help your organization move toward more meaningful change. -
Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America: The Quest for a Model Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The... -
The Forgotten Dimension of Diversity
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWorkers who come from lower social-class origins in the United States are 32% less likely to become managers than those who come from higher social-class... -
The Costs of Racial "Color Blindness"
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePretending not to notice race for fear of appearing prejudiced actually has the opposite effect--others will perceive you as more biased. Research documenting... -
Overcoming Today's DEI Leadership Challenges
Organizational Development Big IdeaCorporate interest in and action on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), which had risen sharply following the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements,... -
Kathryn McNeil (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.