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Championing Diversity and Inclusion at Bank of America

HR Digest

In 2012, we began to launch Diversity Leadership Councils, starting with our Black Executive Leadership Council (BELC). Our approach is to invest in our employees, so they can build a career with us. When our employees have the tools and resources to manage their life and their career, they are able to better deliver for our clients.

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Identifying Root Causes Beats Quick Fixes Every Time

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Among the popular reactions to the problems is forced diversity. President Kennedy introduced the concept of Affirmative Action in 1961 as a way to force diversity and end discrimination in all areas of society. And we can’t fix diversity by decrees and platitudes. It is a profile.

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Why Isn’t Jamie Dimon Telling Clients to Raise Wages Too?

Harvard Business Review

But why isn’t the commercial and investment bank telling its corporate clients to do the same? I believe he should tell his bank’s corporate clients to follow suit. It’s great that JPMorgan Chase will raise starting wages of its tellers and low-wage employees.

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Why More Cities Should Offer Summer Jobs for Teens

Harvard Business Review

Now city and state leaders hope to use summer jobs programs to provide meaningful employment experiences that can improve teens’ job readiness and financial skills and boost their academic and career aspirations. To what degree did the program’s formal career readiness training enhance outcomes?

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates.

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The Ways Big Cities Think About Large-Scale Change

Harvard Business Review

Not only do you need to bring together folks with diversity of thought and experience, but those leaders also need to challenge long-held orthodoxies that can limit progress. One promising example here, however, is StriveTogether ’s Theory of Action for bringing about large-scale change in education, from cradle to career.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. The disparity in gender diversity has little to do with competence levels.” Wellins, Ph.D.,

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