Diversity Management, News and Updates
CVS Health (No. 50 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity), a company at the forefront of changing the health care landscape, and Aetna, one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, announced Dec. 3 the execution of a definitive merger agreement under which CVS Health will…
WHY THEY’RE ON THE LIST Aetna, a mainstay on the Top 50 list, has made a deliberate and intentional effort to design and execute a targeted talent strategy focused on diversity and inclusion. That approach has had a significant impact on key metrics such as representation of women at the…
By Michael Nam New Jersey City University held its Building the Dream gala on April 16, a benefit to raise scholarship funds while honoring luminaries who have supported its aims of providing cost-effective higher education for New Jersey’s residents. The honorees included DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti who received the Corporate…
Update (3/30/2015 4:35 pm): The business coalition ofCummins,Eli Lilly and Companyand other companies have sent letters to the Indiana legislature asking for new legislation to make certain that the neither the RFRAor any other Indiana law “can be used to justify discrimination based upon sexual orientation or gender identity. By…
Same-gender marriage now formally has the backing of much of corporate America. An astounding 379 companies signed an amicus brief that was filed on Thursday urging the Supreme Court to “affirm a uniform principle that all couples share in the right to marry.” The brief makes the business case for…
[SlideDeck2 id=23512 ress=1] Michele C. Meyer-Shipp Michele C. Meyer-Shipp has been named vice president and chief diversity officer of Prudential Financial, succeeding Emilio Egea, who retired. In her new role, Meyer-Shipp is responsible for leading and directing all diversity-and-inclusion initiatives for the company, and for ensuring ongoing compliance with federal…
Workplace diversity includes ALL employees. But how do you reach white men and make them understand that they are part of diversity Generating buy-in from white men is a challenge in some companies, especially for middle management. Even the DiversityInc Top 50 companies are split on strategies, with some choosing…
Diversity-management executives from Aetna, Kraft and CVS Caremark weigh in on the benefits they’ve gained from filling out The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversitysurvey. We asked Jim Norman ofKraft Foods, No. 7 in the 2012 DiversityInc Top 50; Raymond Arroyo ofAetna, No. 24; and David Casey ofCVS Caremark, one…
Why do companies need resource groups There are four key reasons: recruitment, retention, talent development and market outreach. Employees Make the Case for Resource Groups After four years with Aetna in customer service, Cyndee Ward was at a crossroads familiar to many women. She had a toddler son and a…
Tour forDiversityin Medicine, a new initiative from several young Boston- and Chicago-based physicians, has revved up for its inaugural bus tour in February to take 11 doctors, dentists and medical school students from minority populations to five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the South to offer a full…