Making Intel More Diverse

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🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Danielle Brown, Intel Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, talks about the corporation’s $300 million initiative to increase diversity, the largest such investment yet by a technology company. The goal is to make Intel’s U.S. workforce mirror the talent available in the country by 2020. Brown breaks down what exactly Intel is doing, why the corporation is doing it, where it’s going well (recruiting), where it’s not going as well (retention), and what other companies can learn from Intel’s experience.

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0:00.0	Kurt Nick is here from Ideacast. I want to tell you about the Big Take
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0:20.2	listen. Welcome to the H Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael.
0:38.0	The future is on display each year at the Consumer Electronics Show.
0:43.0	Tech companies travel to Las Vegas from around the world
0:45.7	to show off their products and present their vision
0:48.3	of how we will all live, work, and play someday.
0:51.5	I'd like to take this moment to show you just what I mean.
0:59.4	In 2015, Intel Corporation CEO Brian Kucanich stood on stage to make a few big predictions.
1:06.0	First, he showed off some drones playing table tennis.
1:09.0	I can tell you, we played this in a conference room one day and it was pretty exciting.
1:14.4	So let's drop the final drone.
1:16.4	His other pledge to change the future was the one that really caught our attention.
1:20.7	He said that Intel would spend $300 million to increase diversity in its workforce.
1:26.0	That's the largest such investment yet by a technology company,
1:30.0	and he pledged that by the year 2020, Intel's U.S. workforce would mirror the talent available in the country.
1:37.0	What that means is significantly increase our hiring,
1:41.0	progression, retention of women and minorities in the workplace.
1:47.1	We will, as good engineers, measure and report our progress on a regular basis with full transparency.
1:55.0	Joining us now to give us that report is Intel's Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
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