MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Diversity Nudges

Despite their commitments to diversifying their workforces, many companies continue to struggle with attracting, hiring, and retaining employees from underrepresented groups.

Achieving workplace diversity is not easy, but leaders can target, address, and nudge specific data points and thoughtfully incentivize behaviors that support it. These interventions are often small, easy to implement, and inexpensive, but when they are applied to choices, processes, and organizational levers in the attraction, recruitment, onboarding of people and along the employee path cycle, they can help make a workplace more diverse and inclusive.

About the Author

Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio (@hlspaola) is the faculty chair of the Executive Leadership Research Initiative for Women and Minority Attorneys and a senior research fellow at the Center for the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. She is the author of Diversity Dividend: The Transformational Power of Small Changes to De-Bias Your Company, Attract Diverse Talent, Manage Everyone Better — and Make More Money (MIT Press, 2023), from which this adaptation is drawn.

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