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Ideas for your work from MIT Sloan School of Management | Office of Communications
+ THREE INSIGHTS FOR THE WEEK September 5 – September 11, 2021
1. Environmental, social, and governance-based investing requires more and newer sources of data, hidden where …
By Meredith Somers | MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter | September 13, 2021
A 2020 women’s leadership study from LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co. found that American women held less than 40% of corporate management positions, and women continue to fight …
By Jeff Schmitt | Poets & Quants | September 4, 2021
Kevin D. Johnson
MIT, Sloan School of Management
Age: 41
“I’m a Christian, husband, father, business owner, entrepreneur, computer scientist, author, teacher, student, and musician.”
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Family Members: Wife …
By Michael Corkery | The New York Times | September 12, 2021
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Panther Graphics printing plant sits along a row of red brick buildings and empty parking lots on the edge of a circular highway that separates this city’s …
By Bloomberg | September 10, 2021
Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty has helped expand the image of beauty in the cosmetics industry. As a younger generation demands more from brands, can the industry become a force for inclusion and body positivity?
By David Pedulla | Harvard Business Review | May 12, 2020
In the wake of major social and political changes over the past decades, leading companies are taking steps to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet progress in most sectors remains tepid. …
McKinsey & Company | September 9, 2021
For Jeff Berg, his Navy life began at birth—he was born at Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California to a father in the Navy. Two grandfathers and a great uncle had also …
By Cat Zakrzewski | The Washington Post | September 9, 2021
The architects of a California bill providing some of the most comprehensive protections in the country for workers who expose discrimination have a plan to make the legislation resonate globally.
The …
By Brian Liou | The Muse
When I was just starting my company Rora—a career and negotiation agency for high performers—a friend received a job offer she was excited about. When I asked her if she planned to negotiate, she …
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Ideas for your work from MIT Sloan School of Management | Office of Communications
+ THREE INSIGHTS FOR THE WEEK August 29 – September 4, 2021
1. Enterprise data is often incomplete, inaccurate, and poorly classified. Increasing its liquidity — that is, …
