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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” ” On the other hand, words like “collaborative” and “cooperative,” tend to draw more women than men. ” Set diversity goals. “Seeing is believing,” she explains.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world. As a $17 billion, 90,000-person network of 258 cooperatives, the Mondragon Corporation is the antithesis of the monolithic, go-it-alone enterprise at the center of so much economic activity.