- December 16, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
FACULTY Q&A
As companies realize they need to take action to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive, analytics play an important role. Managers may wonder if their business practices unintentionally create unfair situations for their employees and other stakeholders, but they may lack the analytical skills to effectively deal with the issue.
University of Michigan business professor Chris Rider sees a critical need for these skills—spurring him to create a groundbreaking new course at the Ross School of Business to equip students and ultimately, he hopes, enable companies to act.
In Rider’s course—Equity Analytics, to be offered in both graduate and undergraduate versions in winter 2022—students will learn how to analyze equity issues in real-world situations, augmented by new case studies and visits from industry experts and executives with relevant experience.
In the long term, Rider hopes companies will start establishing a new role of…
