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Study: A CEO’s Decision Making Is Shaped by Whether Their Parents Were Immigrants

Harvard Business Review

We conducted a study specifically focusing on whether the cultural values that CEOs inherit from their parents and grandparents affect their decision-making and their firms’ performance. bank CEOs who were born in the U.S., Research has long shown that cultural values are deeply rooted and that immigrants to the U.S.

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In Asia, Power Gets in the Way

Harvard Business Review

Yet, when her CEO enters the room specifically to seek feedback in her area of expertise, I once again watch her shrink from being a bright, outgoing creative professional to a subordinate who speaks in carefully couched, formal terms. Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." Take Malaysia , for example.

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