It's Not the How or the What but the Who

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From Counting People to Making People Count

I grew up in a Buenos Aires neighborhood full of people just like my family and me—middle-class Catholics of Caucasian descent. I went to a Catholic, all-boys high school and then studied industrial engineering for six years at the Argentine Catholic University without a single woman in my class. My first exposure to any form of cultural, gender, religion, racial, or class diversity was at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where I got my MBA, and I loved it. I found an extremely open, international campus community and became quite intrigued with the various affirmative action initiatives I saw deployed at the school and in the United States more broadly. I was grateful for them, since my ...