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Professor of Finance, Fellow of the British Academy, non-exec director, author, TED speaker. Purposeful business, responsible investing, behavioral economics.
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The Value of Non-Value-Maximizing Managers

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By Pierre Chaigneau, Alex Edmans, Nicolas Sahuguet
| ecgi.global
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Diversity in the Workplace Needs a New Metric

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By Alex Edmans
| Magzter Inc. Verified
The Wall Street Journal | December 01, 2025 True workplace diversity is about diversity of thought—and that kind can improve performance FOR DECADES, the corporate world has run with a simple story: Diversity drives performance. Lately, though, the conventional wisdom has been challenged, and for good reason: Independent, peer-reviewed research has found no correlation—let alone ca This story is from the December 01, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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Diversity in the Workplace Needs a New Metric

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By Alex Edmans
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
For decades, the corporate world has run with a simple story: Diversity drives performance. Lately, though, the conventional wisdom has been challenged, and for good reason: Independent, peer-reviewed research has found no correlation—let alone causation—between diversity and performance. The backlash, though, often conflates flawed implementation with a flawed idea. True workplace diversity isn’t about optics—the way somebody looks—but is about diversity of thought.
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