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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. This overconcentration in employer stock undermines the benefits of a diversified portfolio in a 401(k) plan, where participants bear the entire risk of subpar investment performance.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

They are remarkably open to talented people from diverse backgrounds, and are highly skilled at giving future leaders the knowledge and experience they need to lead successfully in the global economy. companies actively promote executive officers with diverse geographic and cultural backgrounds.

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. Over the past seven years, more than 1,500 MBAs and executives at Harvard Business School have participated in True North Groups through the 12-week course. billion to $60 billion during his tenure.

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What’s the Effect of Pro-LGBT Policies on Stock Price?

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, one ally has emerged as an increasingly visible Pride Month participant: corporate America. Organizational competency in LGBT inclusion (such as providing diversity-training programs, an employee resource group, or a diversity council that includes LGBT issues) (+20 pts). Company flags fly next to Pride flags.

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What’s the Effect of Pro-LGBT Policies on Stock Price?

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, one ally has emerged as an increasingly visible Pride Month participant: corporate America. Organizational competency in LGBT inclusion (such as providing diversity-training programs, an employee resource group, or a diversity council that includes LGBT issues) (+20 pts). Company flags fly next to Pride flags.

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What Tech Companies Can Do to Become a Force for Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

Long before its current crises , tech gained a reputation for elitism, ” brogrammer “ culture, and an overrepresentation of white and East Asian men (albeit with mostly white ones in management.) For their part, black and Latinx workers have together ticked up only slightly since 2002, to 14.7%