In a typical mentoring relationship, a senior employee offers wisdom to help a junior employee advance in their career. Reverse-mentoring turns that convention upside-down and is a beneficial practice of successful companies. In fact, 72% of the 2020 DiversityInc Top 50 companies report having reverse mentoring. These types of connections…
Tag: Innovation
Nielsen Releases 2019 Breakthrough Innovation List, Powered by Nielsen Bases
Originally published on Nielsen Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) Global Connect released its highly anticipated Top 25 Breakthrough Innovation winners for 2019. For close to a decade, this list has been the gold standard in recognizing innovation and global success within the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space. The steady growth and diversification…
New Study Highlights Five Traits of Leading Innovators
Innovation is a prized concept across the business world. It’s a word many people use to draw eyeballs and support recruitment activities. But, has anyone ever really stopped to think about what innovation is and how it can drive a business? Mastercard and Harvard Business Review Analytic Services today unveiled…
Dow and WE Announce 2018/2019 WE Are Innovators Challenge Winners
Eleven schools have also received innovation grants totaling $15,500 to support students as they turn their innovative ideas submitted through the challenge into action. Originally Published by Dow. Dow and WE, a family of organizations that makes doing good, doable, announced the winners of the 2018/2019 school year WE Are Innovators challenge….
AT&T: 25 Years Later, You Will
Originally Published by AT&T. Twenty-five years ago, we dared people to imagine a world where you could take a meeting from the beach, talk to someone through your watch, and even get directions from your car’s dashboard. Today, these possibilities are realities. For the 25th anniversary of our “You Will”…
Abbott: Tech Knowledge on Neuromodulation
Tech Knowledge is an online video series about Abbott innovations. Imagine going from complete independence — where you like, when you like, how you like — to being unable to control your arms to brush your own teeth. It can be crushing, mentally and emotionally. For many people living with…
Paula Deen and the N-Word: Mixed Reaction From Corporations, Citizens
By Manuel McDonnell Smith Some chefs are fond of the maxim “If you can’t stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen.” After her confirmed use of racial slurs and mockery, one network has taken the motto to heart and shown celebrity chef Paula Deen the kitchen door. But…
Is This the End of Flexible Workplaces
By Barbara Frankel Are flexible workplaces going the way of VHS tapes and the Palm Pilot I’ve heard grumblings from several people, mostly women with children, since Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer decided to ban telecommuting and Best Buy told its corporate employees they have to start working in the office….
Toyota: 'Innovative Problem-Solving Demands Diversity & Inclusion'
Toyota: ‘Innovative Problem-Solving Demands Diversity & Inclusion’ Toyota executives share how their remarkably diverse Treasury Department creates an engaged team that delivers significant business results. Toyota‘s history of using diversity for problem-solving dates back as far as World War II, when a diverse team helped British code-breakers crack the German…
Novartis' David Epstein: A Diverse Team Can 'Accomplish Feats Nobody Thought Possible'
David Epstein, Division Head of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, spoke with DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti at Novartis corporate headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, about how diversity impacts innovation, R&D and marketing.Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation is No. 13 on the DiversityInc Top 50. LUKE VISCONTI: What led you to be a supporter of diversity and…