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How Bayer Increased Diversity on Its Senior Ranks
For the last five years, Bayer has been quietly transitioning from being an international company to a truly global one. There is a difference, says CEO Marijn Dekkers. “You are not a global co
Denise Young Smith - Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources, Apple Inc.
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Diversity chief helping Google play catch-up
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Her straightforward approach and passion for helping the disenfranchised landed Nancy Lee her current job as Google’s chief of diversity and inclusion. It also got
Apple to Invest over $40 Million Dollars in Recruiting Talent from HBCUs...
For students of HBCUs, Apple may have laid the foundation for a promising future. This particular future doesn't involve the revealing of the latest innovation to come out of Silicon Valley, but rather, a landmark investment in diversity recruiting. On Tuesday, the titan of technology announced it's collaboration with The Thurgood Marshall College Fund to find and generate potential talent in the HBCU community, with the end goal of increasing the number of minorities, women and veterans in the technology industry.
HBCU CONNECT announces another successful recruiting event with Microsoft!
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Trying To Hire A Diverse Team Of Engineers? It's Not Just A Pipeline Issue
Recently, there have been a flurry of articles discussing the lack of diversity in tech. Many reference “pipeline” issues as justification for the low numbers. According to the National Ce
Tech Companies Need New Strategies... By Joelle Emerson
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The lack of diversity in the tech industry isn't new, but the frank discussion about the nature and severity of the problem is. Growing transparency around workforce demogra
More white women does not equal tech diversity
OAKLAND, Calif. — This is a critical moment for the tech industry. As the conversation about tech's lack of diversity reaches mainstream consciousness, we have to make significant adjustments to
Five Trends Driving Workplace Diversity In 2015
Often criticized in the past as well-intentioned but stagnant, corporate diversity departments at major organizations have never been so visible. With Google yesterday pledging a substantial sum to Co
Prioritizing Diversity In 2015
Editor’s note: Joelle Emerson is the co-founder and CEO of Paradigm, a strategy firm that helps tech companies more effectively build diverse organizations. At a recent forum on diver
Maxine Williams - Chief Diversity Officer, Facebook
Maxine Williams is very visible on the Facebook campus. And not just because she's one of the few black people working here. With its ambitions encircling the globe, diversity has become a top priori
CES 2015: Lessons Learned at Facebook's Diversity Panel Tech Feature
Be yourself, be confident, build community: each of these steps are simple, but don’t confuse simple with easy. During CES 2015 I was approached by a woman who worked for Facebook. It was fairl
The powerful woman behind Intel's new $300 million diversity initiative
Intel president Renée James is building a pipeline of female and other groups of underrepresented engineers and computer scientists. Amidst the barrage of new TVs and connected fitness tracker
Brown-Forman and HBCUConnect.com pull of successful VIP networking event for black professionals
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Silicon Valley is trying to diversify, but strategies still lag
On the Washington, D.C., campus of Howard University, Silicon Valley is an ever-growing presence. The engineering school’s new Yahoo Data Center was christened such after a donation from the Sunnyv
How Does Workforce Diversity Give My Company a Competitive Edge?
All too often, diversity recruiting is associated with filling a quota according to regulatory guidelines. In reality, minority recruitment is about much more than that. The motivations aren’t about c
Cutting Edge Diversity Recruiting Strategies
Anyone who’s paying attention has learned by now that there are innumerable advantages to be found in fostering a more positive environment toward diversity in the workplace. Diversity recruiting is t
Industries that Are Best and Worst at Hiring Diverse Candidates
There’s no question that the companies currently practicing diversity recruiting and hiring minorities are seeing tremendous benefits within their businesses. Multicultural recruiting practices lead t
Reverend Jackson and Rainbow PUSH applaud Intel's landmark diversity initiative
Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition applaud Intel’s landmark diversity announcement to transform their workforce to achieve parity with the US population available by 2020 – Establis
Steve Pemberton - Chief Diversity Officer, Walgreens
Steve Pemberton is Divisional Vice-President and Chief Diversity Officer for Walgreens, the first such person to hold that responsibility in the company’s 110 year history. Prior to assuming his
Intel initiative to encourage diversity in technology is backed with $300 million fund
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel Corporation today announced a broad, new Diversity in Technology initiative, which includes a $300 million investment to encourage more diversity at Intel and within the technology industry at large.
Diversity Hiring Fair - February 7, 2015
The Potomac School, a coed, K-12 independent school and Eastern Education Resource Collaborative (East Ed), an organization whose mission is to serve as a resource to schools to support the establishm
Microsoft's Diversity Stats Reveal Progress Towards Closing Its Employee Diversity Gap
By Ronald Barba Diversity in Silicon Valley and the tech industry as a whole have been and will continue to become a dominating and contentious issue. While many within the industry claim that new p
New Arts and Sciences Dean Sees Diversity, Collaborations as Key to College’s Future, Growth
Ken Petren, the new dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, combines the tenacity of a first-generation college graduate with a passion for innovation and diversity. Date: 1/5/2015 By:
Lessons For Ferguson In Creating A Diverse Police Department
By Batya Ungar-Sargon James Knowles, the mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, wants to recruit more minorities to the city’s police force, where only three officers are black.1 With an initiative that includ