Help women take the stage Herminia Ibarra 14 February 2012 Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, has been speaking out a lot lately about subtle dynamics that hold women back from reaching senior roles in business. Her TED talk and Barnard commencement speech went...
The best-performing CEOs in India Herminia Ibarra 5 February 2012 Who are the best-performing CEOs in India? Our answer to this important question is premised on the notion that the most objective test of a CEO’s leadership ought to be how the company does during...
Is ‘command and collaborate’ the new leadership model? Herminia Ibarra 3 February 2012 The theme at Davos this year was ‘The great transformation: shaping new models’. One of the models up for discussion was leadership. Panels with titles like ‘Leadership under...
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...
