Insights

Drawing from her wide experiences across the UK Parliament, British media, YouTube, Google, and Snap Inc., Oona King shares how we can leverage tech’s problem-solving mindset to drive DEI progress, her vision for open-sourcing DEI, and the next big leap for DEI — more deeply understanding how product plays into the space.

In this episode, we speak with Harvard Business School Professor Mike Luca about the role of platform design choices in reinforcing discrimination, how data experiments offer insights for managers, and what the future could hold if organizations continue to pay attention to these issues.

In this episode, we speak with Laura N Montoya from Accel.AI about the inherent correlation between underrepresentation and bias, the need to support communities building tech systems, plus advice for young people looking to get into the tech space.

In this episode, we speak with Lumumba Seegars from Harvard Business School about the challenges and limitations employees face when participating in Employee Resource Groups, how organizational leaders can be more effective allies, and the critical importance of intersectional approaches to any work involving change.

In this episode, we are speaking with Elizabeth M. Adams from Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab about the roles and responsibility of government in tech, the ethical implications of technology, and the long game of advocacy work.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Christine Marie Ortiz Guzman from Equity Meets Design about equity design and designers, organizational responsibilities to change, and the relationship between capital and lowercase “d” designers.

In this episode, we speak with Candice Morgan from GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) shares how to navigate inclusive strategies in organizations; how the “summer of protest” has moved the dial of accountability; and how the venture space can better practice antiracism.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Brandeis Marshall from DataedX about the consequences of data inequity, the balancing act of qualitative and quantitative mindsets, and critical importance of humanizing data systems.

HBS Digital Initiative Director David Homa wants to know: how would you describe tech inequality?

HBS Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman wants to know: when does technology not work for you?