The Talent Pool Your Company Probably Overlooks

Robert Austin, a professor at Ivey Business School, and Gary
Pisano, a professor at Harvard Business School, talk about the
growing number of pioneering firms that are actively identifying
and hiring more employees with autism spectrum disorder and other
forms of neurodiversity. Global companies such as SAP and Hewlett
Packard Enterprise are customizing their hiring and onboarding
processes to enable highly-talented individuals, who might have
eccentricities that keep them from passing a job interview — to
succeed and deliver uncommon value. Austin and Pisano talk about
the challenges, the lessons for managers and organizations, and the
difference made in the lives of an underemployed population. Austin
and Pisano are the co-authors of the article, “Neurodiversity as a
Competitive Advantage” in the May-June 2017 issue of Harvard
Business Review.