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...
23 Jan 2012 | Leadership & careers
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...
23 Jan 2012 | Women at work
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...
3 Sep 2011 | Women at work
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...
1 Aug 2011 | Leadership & careers
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...
1 Aug 2010 | Women at work
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...
1 Feb 2010 | Leadership & careers
The best-performing CEOs in the world Morten T. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra and Urs Peyer 1 February 2010 A lot of people have blamed short-term thinking for causing our current economic troubles, which has set off a debate about what time window we should use to...
10 Jan 2009 | Women at work
Women and the vision thing Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru 10 January 2009 Many believe that bias against women lingers in the business world, particularly when it comes to evaluating their leadership ability. Recently, we had a chance to see whether that...
