Diversity
Ideas and insights about diversity from MIT Sloan.
How Olive Garden and IHOP build relationships across income classes
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Research from MIT Sloan finds that casual chain restaurants like Applebee’s and Chili’s are the best places to meet and socialize with people from different income classes.
To increase workforce diversity, focus on these 10 opportunities
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A new book from The MIT Press identifies nudges, interventions, and experiments to help companies de-bias, attract diverse talent, and manage the workforce better.
Study demonstrates the value of ‘long ties’
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Maintaining relationships with distant contacts takes work but results in a more diverse network and increased access to economic opportunities.
Film producer Scott Budnick: Use your talent to make change
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“The Hangover” producer Scott Budnick left moviemaking to advocate for prison reform, then he came back. Here’s how he connects his two passions.
From Hollywood to the gridiron, advocates champion restorative justice
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Why film producer Scott Budnick, the New England Patriots’ Devin McCourty, celebrity barber VicBlends, and others are advocating for formerly incarcerated people.
4 ways to close the homeownership gap
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Experts share ideas on how to reduce the homeownership gap between white and minority households and create more equality in the housing market.
Let’s choose collective intelligence over the madness of mobs
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Evolution can drive prejudices, MIT Sloan economist Andrew Lo finds. To nurture group wisdom, biases in data sets must be documented and understood.
7 management practices that benefit low-wage workers
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A report from MIT Sloan analyzes the impact management practices such as paid leave and promotions have on low-wage workers’ economic opportunities.
The imbalance of PhDs’ socioeconomic backgrounds
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Economics PhDs are more likely to have highly educated parents and come from a more socioeconomically advantaged background — and that’s a problem.
5 traits of the workforce of the future
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Future-ready employees are empowered, data-literate, comfortable with AI and machine learning, and committed to social and climate concerns.