The Iron Lady’s failed mid-career transition Herminia Ibarra 23 January 2012 With the recent movie, The Iron Lady, leadership scholars like myself have seized the opportunity to reflect on the lessons of her life and career. In the film we see an old and...
Her key to efficiency: arrive late, leave early Herminia Ibarra 23 January 2012 A couple of years ago, a well-intentioned friend, hearing me describe the horrors of my commute in Paris, said I should decide when I wanted to see my son each day: in the morning or...
Taking gender into account: theory and design for women’s leadership development programs Robin Ely, Herminia Ibarra and Deborah Kolb 3 September 2011 We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture...
Are you a collaborative leader? Herminia Ibarra and Morten T. Hansen 1 August 2011 Watching his employees use a new social technology, Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, had an epiphany. His company had developed Chatter, a Facebook inspired application for...
Why men still get more promotions than women Herminia Ibarra, Nancy M. Carter and Christine Silva 1 August 2010 Nathalie (all names in this article are disguised), a senior marketing manager at a multinational consumer goods company and a contender for chairman in...
