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 I often get asked why there are so many more South Asian CEOs than East Asian CEOs in Corporate America. Among the Fortune 500, the CEOs of Alphabet/Google (Sundar Pichai), Microsoft, (Satya Nadella), Adobe (Shantanu Narayen), Chanel (Leena Nair), IBM (Arvind Krishna), Micron (Sanjay Mehrotra), Palo Alto Networks (Nikesh Arora) and former CEOs of Mastercard (Ajay Banga) and Pepsi (Indra Nooyi) were all born in India and were appointed the CEO position. There are far fewer East Asian CEOs in the Fortune 500, and most of them are the founders of their companies like Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Tony Xu (DoorDash), Lisa Su (AMD) and Hock Tan (Broadcom). Three of these are in the semiconductor industry and two of them founded their companies. This is just a list of the Fortune 500 CEOs, but the data shows that South Asians not only outperformed East Asians at this level, but also over-indexed compared to white CEOs.
Whereas extensive research has examined the “glass ceiling” faced by women, little research has examined the “bamboo ceiling,” whereby Asians appear disproportionately underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States. To investigate the mechanisms and scope of this problem, we compared the two largest Asian subgroups: East Asians and South Asians. Across nine studies (n = 11,030), East Asians were less likely than South Asians and whites to attain leadership positions, whereas South Asians outperformed whites. The leadership attainment gap between East Asians and South Asians was consistently explained by cultural differences in assertiveness, but not by prejudice or motivation.
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We work for your attention, not algorithms. Support reader-first news. Editor's Note: In the Indian context, collectivism seems to show up more in the form of collaborative problem-solving and consensus-building, not conflict avoidance. Indians aren't passive, they're pragmatic. They value resolution over repression. Researchers pointed out that these conflict resolution styles are very similar to those of Americans and other Westerners. This may or may not be the result of British colonial influence (this coupled with English fluency, the diversity of religions and caste system in India leading to more frequent conflicts, could be an entirely separate essay). What all this underscores is something I talk about a lot: people are more complex than cultural caricatures. You can't just map behaviors onto someone because of where they're from. Understanding generational differences, personality, and professional context matters just as much, if not more, than making broad cultural assumptions.
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