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College recruitment Mentoring has an especially Diversity task forces Diversity managers some-
targeting minorities often positive impact. Managers promote social account- times put ineffective pro-
focuses on historically who sponsor women and ability because members grams in place but have a
black schools, which lifts minorities come to believe, bring solutions back to their positive impact overall—in
the numbers of African- through their increased departments—and notice part because managers
American men and women. contact, that their protégés whether their colleagues know someone might ask
deserve the training and adopt them. them about their hiring
opportunities they’ve and promotion decisions.
received.

Note: In our analysis, we’ve isolated the effects of diversity programs from everything else going on in the companies and in the economy.