Developing Diversity: Lessons from Top Teams

Who is better equipped to set the corporate agenda: a small and homogeneous top management team of like-minded individuals, or a larger, more heterogeneous team of individuals from a wider variety of backgrounds and perspectives?

There are many opinions on this issue, but very little hard data exists to recommend one approach or the other. As a result, in collaboration with the Center for Effective Organizations (part of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California), the authors sought to address the issue by analyzing 66 peer-reviewed studies of top management team composition and performance conducted since 1984.

Content: Article
Authors: Madelaine Pfau, Max Landsberg
Source: strategy+business
Subjects: Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior