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Mellody Hobson

Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments

United States · b. 1969

Business and finance

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Joined Ariel Investments in 1991 and became its president in 2000 and co-chief executive in 2019. She has chaired the boards of DreamWorks Animation and Starbucks.

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Recorded · On the billboard

We cannot afford to be color blind. We have to be color brave. We have to be willing, as teachers and parents and entrepreneurs and scientists, we have to be willing to have proactive conversations about race with honesty and understanding and courage, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the smart thing to do, because our businesses and our products and our science, our research, all of that will be better with greater diversity.
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why? TED2014, 20 March 2014 source ↗
Question In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life? Daily life read 19 other answers →
I told our Ariel team, we are not going to limp out of COVID. We're going to slingshot out of COVID. We're going to be pulling that rubber band back and back, and we're going to be warehousing ideas, and getting work done, and so when this is over we will pole vault ahead.
Recorded Kathleen J. McInnis, Smart Women, Smart Power podcast, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 28 August 2024 source ↗

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