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

Harvard Business Review

.” But excluded from the report was the fact that Asian Americans are the least likely racial group to be promoted into Silicon Valley’s management and executive levels, even though they are the most likely to be hired into high-tech jobs. executives and senior managers , and none of its executive officers , were.

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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. Managers submit a list of candidates for designated positions.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. What we found was an incredible paradox.