Kennedy also contributed one more unusual idea: recruiting Smith College art history majors. Few companies hired women for technical positions in the 1940s and 1950s. Fewer still recruited art history majors and trained them. Kennedy encouraged Land to break both taboos, which became a great advantage for the company; decades before the idea became popular, both Kennedy and Land understood that diversity enhanced creativity. One of Polaroid’s most critical technology breakthroughs came from a harpsichord-playing art history graduate from Smith named Meroë Morse, who rose to lead a major
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Diversity
