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Nov 2022
28m 9s

How Women (and Everyone) Can Form Deeper...

Harvard Business Review
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The number of women—especially women of color—in leadership ranks at the world’s largest companies remains desperately small. Tina Opie, associate professor of management at Babson College, offers a new practice for women to lift each other up and fight systemic bias in the workplace, something she calls “shared sisterhood.” The idea is to be more honest wit ... Show More
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