Stanford U: After DEI controversies, companies talk up diversity – but hiring tells a different story. Really!

This Stanford U business school study seems dubious anyway. It focused only on "over nearly 1,300 diversity, equity, and inclusion-related controversies at 315 U.S. public companies from 2008 to 2022, tracking their hiring and retention data and market performance after each incident."

Since when is the skin color of the employees of a company profitable? A different skin color does not mean more sales, better products etc.!

It would be quite foolish for any company to rely on DEI hiring to improve business! Sometimes it pays not to walk the talk! 😊

When will this DEI ideology be finally dumped on the dustbin of history, where it belongs for a long time!

This study shows the disconnect of the  Stanford Graduate School of Business with reality! 

"In brief

• Stanford GSB professor David Larcker and colleagues analyzed DEI controversies at 315 U.S. public companies from 2008 to 2022 for hiring and retention data.
• The study found minimal increases in diversity hiring following DEI-related controversies, primarily in junior and low-paying roles.
• Findings indicate a disconnect [???] between companies’ DEI messaging and actual hiring practices, indicating shortcomings in corporate diversity strategies [???].

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After DEI controversies, companies talk up diversity – but hiring tells a different story | Stanford Report "Corporate HR data reveals that many responses to public scrutiny are superficial, a trend researchers call “DEI washing.”"

4 strategies for sustainable business | MIT Sloan

Major business school tries to force private businesses to have outside political and ideological activists or international organisations to run your company!

What kind of a business school is this? Bizarre!

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1. Listen, internally and externally (includes BLM)
2. Deploy overlapping timelines (to eliminate plastic)

3. Develop a mix of metrics (is your supply chain partner a member of the U.N. Global Compact)

4. Connect sustainability with diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice

"Climate change is necessarily a justice issue": Jason Jay Co-director, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

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4 strategies for sustainable business | MIT Sloan Companies are under pressure from multiple stakeholders to adopt sustainable business practices. Here are four foundational tenets to guide your strategy.

MIT Sloan School of Management: Should we allow criticism while brainstorming?

I have been convinced for many years that business schools tend to sell a lot of hot air and banalities! They repackage and regurgitate a lot of ancient common sense and wisdom! They also produce quite a few harmful dogmas and short lived fashions of the day! Here is some recent evidence for that!

"Some years ago,Jared Curhan, the Gordon Kaufman Professor and an associate professor of work and organization studies at MIT Sloan, picked up a copy of The New Yorker and began reading an article about creativity. It took only a few paragraphs before he drew back in a mix of surprise and disbelief. The journalist was describing several new scientific studies that argued criticism might be a boon to creativity. How could that be? ...
“For many decades, the ground rule has been to prohibit negative feedback while generating creative options,” Curhan, who is the faculty director of MIT's Behavioral Research Lab, said. “This is ingrained in the way the work gets done.” ...

devised two experiments to explore these questions. They ultimately found that when the setting is cooperative, criticism can boost creativity, whereas in competitive or adversarial settings, criticism should be prohibited. ..."

Should we allow criticism while brainstorming? | MIT Sloan In cooperative settings, criticism can boost creativity in brainstorming and negotiation.