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In Asia, Power Gets in the Way

Harvard Business Review

We have worked together on various projects for several months, so I know what she is capable of. 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.

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

Harvard Business Review

Research has long shown that cultural values are deeply rooted and that immigrants to the U.S. In particular, we looked at how different countries compared on 16 cultural values developed by psychologists Geert Hofstede and Shalom Schwartz, the GLOBE Project , and the World Values Survey. For instance, U.S.