By Michelle Hendelman, Editor-in-Chief Familiarity is comforting, especially at work. Affiliations and similarities can go a long way in the office, but when does bonding in the break room over a shared alma mater or hometown become a hindrance to corporate diversity? Hiring managers and key decision makers in the hiring process meet a lot […]
“Differences do matter,” began Karyn Twaronite, the EY Americas Inclusiveness Officer and a partner of Ernst & Young LLP. “I’m excited about expanding the definition of diversity as it applies to all men and women.” She explained, “Many years ago, diversity work was about compliance, looking at numbers and representation. This is important, but there’s […]
Contributed by Susan Vitale, Chief Marketing Officer, iCIMS Women who want to get ahead in their careers often focus on forming alliances at the workplace, making friends who can provide a sympathetic ear in a highly competitive environment and support them as they attempt to navigate the corridors of power. It’s important to have friends […]
By Michelle Hendelman, Editor-in-Chief In a recent paper by PA Consulting, the benefit of shaping a corporate culture with a focus on diversity in order to create a high performance environment is explored through the lens of gender diversity. The paper presents a problem, which is that across the globe, there are simply not enough […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Mary Pat Brown, Partner in the DC office of O’Melveny & Myers and member of its White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Practice, says one of the most important things for a young woman to learn early in her career is confidence. Brown, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney […]
By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) There are a multitude of reasons why people work to make their bosses look good. Perhaps they hope it will get them noticed, leading to a promotion of their own. In an unsteady economy, it might be the best route to keeping their job. Maybe they’re just looking to boost […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Everyone is subject to bias – we all have them, and we are all affected by them. Our task in the 21st century is to acknowledge our implicit assumptions about others (and ourselves) and examine how they may be holding others back (or propelling others forward). In the […]
By Michelle Hendelman, Editor-in-Chief In a recent study published by Vanderbilt University researcher, Joni Hersch, she takes a closer look at why women with elite educations are opting out of the workplace at a higher rate than women who hold degrees from less selective institutions after a break in their career. Opting out, onramping, re-entering […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Recently released research by Thomson Reuters shows that the percentage of women on boards is rising incrementally around the world. Based on the firm’s database of 4,100 firms, the majority of companies globally have at least one woman on their board. In 2012 (the last year for which […]
By Michelle Hendelman, Editor-in-Chief Generation Y – the group of young people born anywhere between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, have been the source of plenty of criticism recently from the generations before them who believe that the Millennial generation is single-handedly ruining the modern world as we know it. There are always […]