Corinne Low is a 2024 Top 40 Under 40 business professor who’s advised Fortune 500 companies and teaches Wharton’s “Economics of Diversity” course. The author of the forthcoming book Femonomics, which sparked an 8-way bidding war between top publishing houses, she reveals how investing in inclusion will help your company gain better talent, build stronger teams, and gain a competitive edge in today’s labor market.
For example, Corinne shows how flaws in your hiring process can actually prevent you from bringing on the best talent—even for companies that value inclusion. And she offers surprisingly simple strategies for mitigating that bias and pulling ahead of your competition (for instance, evaluating resumes side by side rather than individually, or using an unbiased AI tool trained using Corinne’s revolutionary new method).
Corinne also researches the unique challenges and opportunities that women face in balancing career and family. In talks, she applies economic principles like personal utility function (how we individually maximize profit and joy) to empower women to make strategic decisions and play to their strengths, helping them leverage their unique traits. And she draws on her research to help leaders get the best out of the female half of their employee base and drive value in the workplace.
“Firms need to ask, ‘What is it costing us to be losing women who could be the next leaders and innovators?'” Corinne says. “You’ll find that it’s worth making an investment to try to change that.”
