16 Jul 2012 | Leadership & careers
Top 50 ranking of China’s business leaders exposes common myths Xiaowei Rose Luo, Morten T. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra and Urs Peyer 16 July 2012 “A general who fears to unsheathe his sword is not a good general,” says Mr Li Jiaxiang, Chairman of Air China from 2004...
25 May 2012 | Leadership & careers, Women at work
To close the gender gap, focus on assignments Herminia Ibarra 25 May 2012 A new McKinsey study (PDF) reports statistically what we already knew from personal experience: that mid-career and senior women tend to be found disproportionally in staff jobs, or ‘pink...
14 Feb 2012 | Leadership & careers, Women at work
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...
5 Feb 2012 | Leadership & careers
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...
3 Feb 2012 | Leadership & careers
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...
