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Consultants on diversity insist that the training they give has value. R. Roosevelt Thomas, founder of the American Institute for Managing Diversity, says corporate America must first redefine the word. "Diversity means differences and similarities," he says, be they in race, gender or corporate culture. He teaches executives to focus on skills and not familiarity. "In a foxhole, I want someone who can shoot," he says. "I don't care where they're from. Some folks have to be reminded of that...
...decision “opened the door for legislation to ‘save women from themselves,’” Benshoof said, quoting from last week’s majority opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart. Benshoof, a Law School graduate, is an attorney, the founder of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, and the current director of the Global Justice Center. Her seminar, called “Reproductive Rights and the Jurisprudence of Equality in the Context of a Transforming Supreme Court,” is the last she is teaching here as her stint...
...than do men." Linda Babcock agrees. An economics professor at Carnegie Mellon and co-author of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide, she points to a host of cultural factors that influence women's expectations and actions practically from the day they are born. As the founder of Carnegie Mellon's PROGRESS (Program for Research & Outreach on Gender Equity in Society), Babcock is developing ways to teach negotiation skills to women and girls. One such tool is the Girls Scouts' new negotiation badge, launched last fall, which girls can earn after completing a seminar on negotiation skills...
...deeply segregated society and that minority groups have some of the most shallow social networks of people in the U.S.” “We saw that minority networks didn’t overlap with the recruiting networks,” said Sean M. Mendy, co-founder of GetConnects and a 2005 Cornell graduate. “I saw friends of mine that had business degrees who were working really menial jobs and thought it was a waste of talent.” William Wright-Swadel, director of Harvard’s Office of Career Services, said...
...principal Heather Watts is in the middle of a stint as visiting lecturer on dramatic arts in the Harvard Dance Program, instructing a new ballet class on technique and repertory. Last semester, Watts taught an academic class at Harvard on the work of George Balanchine, the renowned choreographer and founder of NYCB. “I was scared to death,” says Watts when asked how she initially felt about teaching the course. Before each class, Watts says that she felt just a bit faint at the prospect of instructing a class of academic all-stars who also...