Mellody Hobson: Diversity isn't about do-gooderism — it's about the bottom line
Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments—who has pounded the table on the importance of diversity at companies—says this is key. “If you want to be world class, if you want to have a workforce that represents all the customers you’re going to have and all the ideas that are going to be important to them, I think you need to make sure that everyone’s in the room,” Hobson told Yahoo Finance at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Hobson added that for companies to make progress in increasing diversity, they need to have a sense of urgency.
