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Asian Americans Are the Least Likely Group in the U.S. to Be Promoted to Management

Harvard Business Review

Several years ago, one global energy company commissioned an internal task force to review the status of women and minorities in its leadership pipeline. Reporting to the executive staff, the task force found insufficient gender and racial diversity in the pipeline, including Asian diversity, and recommended specific actions.

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A Fairer Way to Make Hiring and Promotion Decisions

Harvard Business Review

So it''s no surprise that even during the economic downturn, organizations tended to maintain or even slightly increase their budgets for such diversity and inclusion initiatives as mentoring programs, training, affinity groups, diversity councils, and scorecards.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing. After earning a degree in industrial engineering, he joined Techint, a multinational conglomerate with headquarters in Milan. But that potential had been squandered.