In the Media
Why Are There Still So Few Black Executives in America?
Aug 20, 2020 // Features Ella Bell Smith in a piece about the lack of Black executives at the 50 largest companies in the S&P 100. “The reality is that we have to get past the talking,” Smith says.
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Why Women Are Successful Global Leaders
Aug 19, 2020 // Quotes Ella Bell Smith in an article about women leaders around the world and Joe Biden’s support of vice presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. Smith says Biden’s clear, unwavering support of his running mate marks a turning point in American politics.
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What Kamala Harris Shows Us about the New Generation of Women Leaders
Aug 13, 2020 // “In Kamala Harris, we see hope for a new cultural model,” write Ella Bell Smith and coauthor Constance Hale in an opinion piece about Senator Kamala Harris, who is the chosen running mate of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
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Sisterhood Is Critical to Racial Justice
Jun 08, 2020 // As a guest on Harvard Business Review’s Women at Work podcast, Ella Bell Smith discusses how race, gender, and class play into the different experiences and relationships white women and women of color have at work.
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Despite Anti-Racism Pledges, Few Large Companies Have Black CEOs
Jun 08, 2020 // Quotes Ella Bell Smith in a piece about the low number of black senior leaders at American companies.
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Steps Companies Can Take to Make the Workplace Better for Black Employees
Feb 24, 2020 // Highlights a new study from the Center for Talent Innovation examining corporate diversity and inclusion efforts and their impact on black employees. Tuck’s Ella Bell Smith was an advisor for the study. In order for diversity and inclusion programs to be more successful, the study recommends that companies use an “audi
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Podcast: Sisterhood is Scarce
Nov 04, 2018 // Ella Bell Smith appeared on Harvard Business Review's podcast, "Women at Work" to discuss how race, gender, and class play into the different experiences and relationships white women and women of color have at work.
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Lessons on how to navigate the workplace from Ella Bell Smith
Nov 05, 2017 // "Bell Smith’s advice highlighted the fact that constructing a successful career involves continuous self-reflection, learning, and a network of professional relationships. Learning, she pointed out, is a lifelong process and does not stop upon the completion of one’s formal education. "
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Diversity Dialogues
Oct 31, 2003 // "Imagine what we could do if women of all colors joined forces. Imagine how we could change things—not just for executive women, but for the secretaries, the clerks, and the cleaning women," said Tuck professor Ella Bell Smith at Working Mother's 2003 Best Companies for Women of Color Conference. "Coming face-to-face w
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Black Women Still Rising
Aug 04, 2003 // "Black women have yet to achieve real equity within the corporate structure," says Ella Bell Smith, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. "When you look at the succession plans in companies, black women are not brought to the table in key leadership roles."
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Commentary: B-Schools: A Failing Grade on Minorities
May 11, 2003 // In June, the U.S. Supreme Court is to decide two University of Michigan cases that represent the most significant challenge to affirmative action in higher ed in more than two decades. Already, the suits have prompted some colleges and B-schools to reconsider their affirmative-action efforts. The result is likely to be
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Getting Together Forms a Strong Workplace Bond
Apr 08, 2003 // If professional women of color were to sit down and talk about their challenges to succeeding in business, they would find they have a lot in common. Ella Bell Smith, author and professor of organizational strategy at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, encouraged women of color to find new models of racial groups at
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For Sisters Only: Breaking Barriers in Corporate America
Mar 31, 2003 // Ella Bell Smith, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, gets to the heart of the issue. “Black women have been made invisible,” she says. “Sure, black women want to rejoice in the successes of a Dick Parsons, Ken Chenault, or Stanley O’Neal, but it puts them in an awkward position. Black women are not includ
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Trapped in a Trend
Mar 18, 2003 // More than a decade and a half later, that prophesy has proved true so far. "Never before have we had the access [to opportunities] that we have now, believe it or not, but never before have we paid such a price," Bell says.
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Minority Support; Authors Focus on Black Businesswomen
Mar 15, 2003 // "Why don't black women ever smile?" White male business executives frequently ask Ella Bell Smith, a managerial consultant, author and associate professor of business. "So smile," advised Bell, who was in Bloomington-Normal last week for Women's History Month courtesy of a grant from State Farm Insurance Cos.
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The Black Gender Gap
Feb 23, 2003 // For many black women, that professional struggle never ends. "Nobody reaches out to [black women] ... And when they reach out, the door gets slammed in their face," says Ella Bell Smith, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and coauthor of Our Separate Ways, a study of black and white women in corporation
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