India's leading exports: CEOs

An interesting article was published by the magazine "Time" in this week issue. The title, very evocative, is "India's leading exports: CEOs." The analysis starts from the fact that more and more  Indian managers are in charge of multinational companies.

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The brothers and  Vindi Ajay Banga are respectively in charge of MasterCard and partner of private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (after being the CEO of Unilever, in the  food sector, home and personal-care).
Vikram Pandit is the CEO of Citicorp, American banking giant. Ms. Indra Nooyi  is CEO of PepsiCo (the rival of Coca Cola). Nikesh Arora is Google's chief business officer (hence the fourth after Brin, Page and Schmidt). Nitin Nohria is the dean of the Harvard Business School.
In essence, a study shows that there are moreIndian CEOs than any other nationality, except the Americans.
The reasons identified are various. Besides the undoubted managerial skills (the most relevant motive), the article lists, among others, multiculturalism, multiethnic society, the complex society  with scarce resources, the new frontier of India as preferred ( along with China ) location for the multinational's investments, the ability of Indian managers to look abroad,  better than  (for example) the Chinese counterparts.
The fact is that you cannot miss the obvious and striking contrast between a nation with a lots of social problems and this great international success at the level of top managers, and  considering moreover the export more and more  massive (Silicon Valley benefits from full) of many talents in engineering  and technology, going out  especially from such   forge that is the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology).