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When Investors Want to Know How You Treat People

Harvard Business Review

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors?

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Gender in the Multicultural Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Although Nestle's consumers and "shoppers," as they are referred to, were about 80% female, only 3% of managers in the company's leadership pipeline were women. Yet the all-male leadership team had only a single Swiss national. The focus in the first phase has been on the visible promotion of women to the leadership ranks.