Goal 1.2 Inclusive Leadership

Rather than wholly delegating diversity,inclusion, and belonging work to others, Schooland business unit leaders should take direct responsibility for diversification throughrecruitment, promotion, retention, and ongoing development strategies. In their efforts,they should attend to all three constituencies of staff, students, and faculty and academic personnel.

HBS 5i

The governance model of HBS is much likethat of Harvard more broadly — a matrixwhere strategy, decisions, and activitiesbubble up or exist or are made at the locallevel (e.g., within a particular departmentor program), but then are hopefully woventogether in service of a School-wide strategy. One of the most significant factors incausing inclusion to be felt and experiencedas a shared responsibility at HBS was the dean early in his tenure naming “inclusion”as among his “5i” priorities (innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration) — specifically,“to...

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