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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 is the best advice you have ever received? Time & hindsight read 27 other answers →

He says: Take your gloves off, Mellody, but use your power for good. He's giving me my hands back. Use your power for good. And I have never - I've used that analogy in all things in my life, something as simple as getting my hands back, using my powers for good in the water but also day-to-day life using your power for good no matter who you are.

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

Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore? Time & hindsight read 76 other answers →

I'd say be just like you. I once had someone tell me that I don't remind them of anyone that they ever met. And I took that as a huge compliment, which meant I was original. And so I would suggest to her that she speak her truth with her life, with her own sense of purpose and pursue her dreams.

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

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