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Mellody Hobson

Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments

United States · b. 1969

Business and finance

About

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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17 answers

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 What are you most proud of? Identity & self read 102 other answers →

I literally said to them - all of our faces were on the - in the boxes on Zoom. And I welled up. And I said, oh my God, this is my dream. This is what I want - I've wanted to see my whole life of working at Ariel and all the things we've built, and making sure we all have a shot at this - narrowing this wealth gap, and putting our stamp on the industry and society.

Recorded Kathleen J. McInnis, Smart Women, Smart Power podcast, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 28 August 2024 source ↗

Question If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Identity & self read 51 other answers →

silver bullet is probably incentives. I think that if corporate America really said, "you're not going to get your full bonus if you don't have a diverse team working for you," I think we'd see some changes, really, really fast.

Recorded Sharon Epperson, Inclusion in Action: CNBC Opportunity Forum, 18 March 2021 source ↗

Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self read 194 other answers →

And all the while I was growing up, of course, there were just constant conversations about money and money being tight and how are we going to make ends meet and sometimes not having enough money. And it really just made me committed to living a life with much more financial security.

Recorded Farai Chideya, News & Notes, Leading Ladies series, NPR, 22 March 2007 source ↗

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