India's Edge; Why the nation's top managers fare better than their Chinese counterparts in global business circles.

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 31-OCT-05

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Byline: Rukhmini Punoose

India has precious few competitive advantages over China, but one is in the corner office. It produces far more professional managers, many with global name recognition. Today's best-known Chinese CEO is probably Fu Chengyu of Cnooc, who was cast as a frontman for the oil-hungry Chinese state in his failed bid for Unocal. Contrast his notoriety to India's Nandan Nilekani, the CEO of Infosys, best known for transforming his...

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