| Cover Story: Weaving Diversity into
the Corporate Fabric |
| 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. |
| Serving a Changing Population |
| New York Life reaches out to ethnic communities
with activities that demonstrate an understanding of their values
and needs. |
| Creating a Community Solution
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| Dr. Edward Kim works to address the diverse
needs of urban and southern Buffalo, NY with the Lifetime Health
AfterHours program. |
| Diversity by Design |
| The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
on strategies for increasing the diversity of the nation’s
health care workforce. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Reflecting Your Markets: A Source
of competitive Advantage |
| Spencer Stuart’s Victor Arias on
the buying power of minorities in today’s marketplace. |
| 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. |
| Feature: Diversity and the Board
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| 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. |
| In the Leader’s Circle |
| BMO Financial Group considers nurturing
its relationship with the Aboriginal community a critical link
“between people and business strategy.” |
| Whatever It Takes |
| Director of Recruitment and Special Programs
Terri Houston breaks down barriers for minorities at University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The Art of Networking: Turning
Contacts Into Connections |
| Sandra Yancey, founder and CEO of eWomensNetworks
on understanding the power of network development. |
| Action! |
| Close-Up Productions CEO Darnise Davis
considers networking key to business growth. |
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| Hear & There |
| - Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height
visits DaimlerChrysler Group |
| - ING, Texas Tech and Prairie View A&M
Announce Financial Planning Alliance |
| - Marriott Makes “Best for Latinas”
for third consecutive year |
| - Groundbreaking Report on Corporate Ethics
Released |
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| Global Perspectives: Today’s
Leaders on Diversity |
| 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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