Diversity and inclusion

Advice for both individuals and decision-makers.

From building habits to being purposefully unfocused, you can schedule time to take care of yourself.

Business won't change until entrepreneurship does.

Every stage of the transition comes with its own challenges. Here's how to handle each one.

The new millennium has not brought much progress for women seeking top leadership roles in the workplace. Although female graduates continue to pour out...

How to radically reimagine the rules society imposes on us.

Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American,...

Two out of three cheers for International Women's Day (IWD), celebrated on March 8. My first cheer is loud and enthusiastic: High fives for women's diversity...

The underrepresentation of Black voices in academia reflects and feeds the same problem in corporate America.

It's not because of a great diversity program or women's network.

And what leaders can do to prevent it.

The stand-up comic, actor, and author talks about how her TikTok lip-synching of Donald Trump began, her books about tricks for success in business, and...

Surprised by a gender stereotype? React calmly, directly, and move on.

Five tips for building relationships when they're more important than ever.

A much-quoted study from a few years back shows that companies with high numbers of female directors on their boards perform substantially better on three metrics—return on equity, return on sales, and return on invested capital—than companies with very few or no female directors. A group of researchers led by Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin is […]

Network groups for black and Hispanic employees had been an unqualified success. Now a Christian group was forming—and Bill Thompson didn’t know what to think about it.

The glass ceiling appears sooner than we thought.

Four strategies to make sure you're measuring what matters.

As the old guard switches out for the new, you’ll have to change the way you manage.

It’s a great way to show support and reduce stigma.

This series of diversity caselets is designed to present short, quick vignettes of different workplace situations involving issues of gender, sexual orientation,...

A senior manager of marketing and sales at a large medical devices firm has convened his team to help him choose a new manager that will be capable of...

After early successes in a very selective management-training program, Daniel Oliveira, a young manager for Brazilian fashion chain Clothes & Accessories,...

In June 1989, a banker must decide whether and how his bank should participate in the LBO of this small Scottish newspaper publisher. This is the first...

Case Supplement for Case W27066

In the early 1990s, Donna Klein, Director of Work/Life programs for Marriott International, surveyed hotel and resort managers and found they increasingly...

Two years after the formation of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), a national affiliation of four independent Asian American civil rights...

Describes the situation facing Paul Bentington, the president, CEO, and member of the owning family of BIND, PLC, a large and successful family-owned...

Jeanne Lewis, after six years with Staples, Inc., is promoted to senior vice president of marketing. She is to work for fifteen months alongside her predecessor,...

Furthers understanding of, and familiarity with, nonfinancial incentives. Describes major elements that go into making a high-performance sales force;...

This case, a follow-up to "Matteo Hill at Drawn, Inc. (A)" (UVA-OB-1293), continues the debate about sharing the raw responses from employee pulse surveys....

Cityside Financial Services, a disguised consumer bank, serves both a largely African-American urban community and a more affluent, predominantly white...

The sport of soccer (more commonly known as "football" outside North America) has long been a predominantly men's game: men's clubs on every continent...

The case is set in 2014, from the perspective of Pyra, a Singaporean subscription box company for beauty products. Subscription-box services are a fairly...

This case describes a newly promoted middle manager in a global, multi-cultural organization who is challenged by a number of factors in the workplace...

The case is about a micro to small manufacturing setup, Microsign Products, which has been in existence for the last thirty five years. Microsign Products...

A first-of-its-kind look at the outrage gripping organizations worldwide--and how leaders can respond to it. Outrage is everywhere--on the left and on...

When teachers at a Madison, Wisconsin elementary school announce plans to mount a photo exhibit featuring families with gay or lesbian parents, school...

This case follows the co-founder and president, Marla Felcher, of The Philanthropy Connection (TPC). TPC is a nonprofit organization that centers around...

Managers, policymakers, and leaders are often presented with data and evaluation techniques, then tasked with deciding whether to go ahead with the strategy...

Advice for both individuals and decision-makers.

From building habits to being purposefully unfocused, you can schedule time to take care of yourself.

Business won't change until entrepreneurship does.

Every stage of the transition comes with its own challenges. Here's how to handle each one.

The new millennium has not brought much progress for women seeking top leadership roles in the workplace. Although female graduates continue to pour out...

How to radically reimagine the rules society imposes on us.

This series of diversity caselets is designed to present short, quick vignettes of different workplace situations involving issues of gender, sexual orientation,...

Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American,...

Two out of three cheers for International Women's Day (IWD), celebrated on March 8. My first cheer is loud and enthusiastic: High fives for women's diversity...

The underrepresentation of Black voices in academia reflects and feeds the same problem in corporate America.