Dame Vivian Hunt, Senior Partner at McKinsey, on Stakeholder Capitalism and the Value of a Diverse Workforce
Intelligence Squared: Business
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The Impact of Diversity on Performance
When I was first appointed to the lead, our office here in McKinsey in the UK in Ireland seven or eight years ago, I found that questions I was getting about my role in leadership really changed almost on that day. And obviously as an Afro-Caribbean American British woman, a lot of people were asking whether being a woman made a difference. So fortunately we were able to do some pioneering work, link it to performance. But then I also found we didn't have an evidence-based answer as to whether diversity actually matters in performance. Back in 2007, 2010, there weren't a lot of analytic and evidence-based longitudinal studies about the impact of diversity, equity or
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