Do Investors Really Care About Gender Diversity?

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Shareholders penalize tech and finance companies for not hiring enough women, new research shows. Graduate School of Stanford Business September 17, 2019 By Katia Savchuk Investors are eyeing company diversity reports and want to see improvement, new research shows.| Reuters/Stephen Lam In May 2014, Google caused shockwaves when it released its first report about workforce diversity. The numbers themselves were …

Delivering through Diversity

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Our latest research reinforces the link between diversity and company financial performance—and suggests how organizations can craft better inclusion strategies for a competitive edge.

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Why Diversity Programs Fail

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The numbers sum it up. Your organization will become less diverse, not more, if you require managers to go to diversity training, try to regulate their hiring and promotion decisions, and put in a legalistic grievance system.

The very good news is that we know what does work—we just need to do more of it.

Meet the Woman who Discovered a Whole New Type of Galaxy

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Now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, Mutlu-Pakdil analyses data collected from telescopes to help unravel the mysteries of the universe—especially how galaxies form and change over time.

While Mutlu-Pakdil and her team continue to study the intriguing object, she hopes that her work and her story will inspire other immigrants and students, especially those from underrepresented communities.

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Ellen Ochoa Was The First Latina To Go To Space, Now She Shares Her Top Career Lessons

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In 1993, Ellen Ochoa became the first Latina to travel to space after a career in STEM that built up to that moment and yet one of her top career lessons comes from a different part of her life.
“From my Marine friends, I learned to keep focus on two things: (1) accomplish the mission and (2) take care of your people,” shares Ochoa. “If you do #2 well, then your team will take of #1.”
As she thinks back on the things that helped her when exploring a career in STEM, particularly during a time when diversity was less present, Ochoa credits professors who mentored her and helped her visualize the future she wanted for herself and encourages Latinas at the start of their careers to do the same.