| Cover Story: Weaving Diversity into the Corporate Fabric |
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| Russell Corporation holds a firm commitment to a very simple philosophy: “do the right things for the right reasons.” |
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| Special Feature: Health, Life and the challenge of Changing Demographics |
| Making Healthy Changes |
| An ambitious new strategy for recruitment, retention and education helps Excellus BlueCross BlueShield meet the needs of their diverse customer population. |
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| Serving a Changing Population |
| New York Life reaches out to ethnic communities with activities that demonstrate an understanding of their values and needs. |
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| Creating a Community Solution |
| Dr. Edward Kim works to address the diverse needs of urban and southern Buffalo, NY with the Lifetime Health AfterHours program. |
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| Diversity by Design |
| The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing on strategies for increasing the diversity of the nation’s health care workforce. |
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| Making the Pieces Fit |
| Product of a global merger, AstraZeneca works to strengthen teamwork across borders. The challenges and lessons learned are the subject of this in-depth business case from Schneider-Ross. |
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| Supersized Performance |
| As a C-level executive, the Chief Diversity officer is in the best position to orchestrate change and influence leadership to build sustainable, high-performance teams. A study by Diversity Best Practices. |
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| Guerilla Biases |
| The subtle discriminations concealed behind good intentions that can lead managers to do and say a variety of things that seriously compromise an organization’s diversity efforts. From Sondra Thiederman, author of “Making Diversity Work: Seven Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace. |
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| Reflecting Your Markets: A Source of competitive Advantage |
| Spencer Stuart’s Victor Arias on the buying power of minorities in today’s marketplace. |
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| Are You a Gutsy Diversity Leader? |
| When it comes to diversity, it is much easier to talk the talk than walk the walk. How do your leadership skills stack up? A discussion with Leon Lanier of the Winters Group. |
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| Feature: Diversity and the Board |
| The role of the Board of Directors for every organization is essentially the same: to ensure the future as the corporation envisions it. How diversity helps a board create a clear, focused strategic direction. |
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| In the Leader’s Circle |
| BMO Financial Group considers nurturing its relationship with the Aboriginal community a critical link “between people and business strategy.” |
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| Whatever It Takes |
| Director of Recruitment and Special Programs Terri Houston breaks down barriers for minorities at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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| The Language of Business |
| The University of Luton (UK) addresses business needs through commercially focused courses in language and cultures for small and medium-sized businesses. |
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| Deloitte Imparts Business Smarts |
| In association with Weekly Reader, Deloitte & Touche LLP created a curriculum to teach students in grades 10-12 about the realities of the business world. |
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| The Art of Networking: Turning Contacts Into Connections |
| Sandra Yancey, founder and CEO of eWomensNetworks on understanding the power of network development. |
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| Action! |
| Close-Up Productions CEO Darnise Davis considers networking key to business growth. |
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| Hear & There |
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| - Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height visits DaimlerChrysler Group |
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| - ING, Texas Tech and Prairie View A&M Announce Financial Planning Alliance |
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| - Marriott Makes “Best for Latinas” for third consecutive year |
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| - Groundbreaking Report on Corporate Ethics Released |
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| Global Perspectives: Today’s Leaders on Diversity |
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| The Divine Nature of Diversity’s Calling by The Most Reverend Anthony M. Pilla, Bishop, Diocese of Cleveland and Past President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. |
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