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. CURT NICKISCH: One of the things that struck me in the article was the number of people who’ve been working in these programs, how much they talked about how much this has made them better managers. ROBERT AUSTIN: This is one of the things that we heard people talk about a lot, is that, with this population, I have to think about them as individuals.