Is MBB serious about DEI? How is the environment for minorities (both at the bottom and top, including for East/South Asians)

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I’m part of our Asian Diversity Network - we take it very seriously. Long way to go obviously but we’ve transparently published our DEI stats for North America, made significant public and internal commitments and as an MDP I can see how much effort we’re making. Not perfect by any means but we care and it matters.

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Yes. Very serious about it and doing more about it post-summer events (serious before but now taken up another notch in both attitude and action).

Asians way over represented at bottom like Harvard/Yale, may need work on managing this number in a discreet way like the ivys do it. South Asians fine at top East Asians less so.

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