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Fast Company September 2003 Fast Company	Affirmative Action, Deciphered On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on two related cases that, together, posed possibly the most important legal test of affirmative-action strategies since the Alan Bakke decision in 1978.
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Inc. April 1, 2003 Adam Hanft	Down With Bossocracy Though many large companies have rushed to support the diversity policies at the University of Michigan, how many American businesses, large or small, really encourage diversity of thought?
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National Real Estate Investor June 11, 2003 Parke Chapman	Moody's: Chicago Tops List of Economically Diverse Cities Chicago came out on top in a new Moody's survey on the economic diversity of U.S cities, scoring a 95.1 out of a possible 100. The score means that Chicago's economy perfectly matches the components of the national economy.
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HBS Working Knowledge September 27, 2004 David A. Thomas	IBM Finds Profit in Diversity Former CEO Lou Gerstner established a diversity initiative that embraced differences instead of ignoring them. In this Harvard Business Review excerpt, the author describes the key factors that made the initiative a success.
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AFP eWire May 12, 2008	Mixed Results on Growth in Foundation Diversity A new report reveals that foundation diversity has increased significantly in some areas, including board and staff composition, but there continues to be problems in others, such as funding to diverse organizations.
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