Herminia Ibarra

Author's details

Name: Herminia Ibarra
Date registered: January 20, 2012
URL: http://www.herminiaibarra.com/

Biography

Herminia Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, and Area Chair for the Organisational Behaviour Department at INSEAD. She received her M.A. and PhD from Yale University, where she was a National Science Fellow. Prior to joining INSEAD she served on the Harvard Business School faculty for thirteen years. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils and the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Business School. A native of Cuba, Professor Ibarra is an expert on professional and leadership development. Her book Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career (Harvard Business School Press, 2003) documents how people reinvent themselves at work. Her numerous articles on leadership, networking, career development, women's careers and professional identity are published in leading journals including the Harvard Business Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. Her research has been profiled in a wide range of media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and The Economist. Professor Ibarra directs The Leadership Transition, an executive program designed for managers moving into broader leadership roles. She teaches in numerous INSEAD programs and consults internationally on talent management, leadership development, and women’s careers.

Latest posts

  1. How Female Leaders Should Handle Double-Standards — February 8, 2013
  2. Can Companies Both Do Well and Do Good? — January 10, 2013
  3. Study: Women Get Fewer Game-Changing Leadership Roles — November 14, 2012
  4. Why Command-and-Control Leadership Is Here to Stay — September 21, 2012
  5. Sex and the Working Mom — September 6, 2012

Author's posts listings

How Female Leaders Should Handle Double-Standards

 
IMF head Christine Lagarde tells a story about a woman leader she met who took over at a tough moment in her country’s history and resolved to be different. They had to cut the deficit and she wanted to set standards by personal example.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2013/02/how-female-leaders-should-handle-double-standards/

Can Companies Both Do Well and Do Good?

By Morten T. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer
Many management thinkers argue that it is no longer enough to do well financially; companies also need to improve the well-being of (or at least not harm) the communities in which they operate, the environment, and their employees.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2013/01/can-companies-both-do-well-and-do-good/

Study: Women Get Fewer Game-Changing Leadership Roles

Many studies have shown that the representation of women in the senior ranks has been virtually unchanged for years, despite considerable organizational investment in talent management systems. Because leadership development begins early in careers, could inequality in development opportunities explain the gender gap that also emerges so early?… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/11/study-women-get-fewer-game-changing-leadership-roles/

Why Command-and-Control Leadership Is Here to Stay

Travelling through Zurich airport, one billboard always catches my eye. The ad for IWC luxury watches says “Engineered for men who don’t need a copilot.”

My friends who study advertising as both a reflection and shaper of cultural norms would not disagree with my impression: We talk about the death of command and control leadership, and praise the rise of a new, more collaborative, breed of leader.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/09/why-command-and-control-leadership-is-here-to-stay/

Sex and the Working Mom

At one of the companies with which I work there is a legendary story about work life balance.
The firm’s most senior line woman was asked to join a newly constituted high-level diversity committee, which included the company CEO. One of the hurdles that was holding women back, everyone agreed, was the high degree of transcontinental travel required of executives in the uppermost echelons, who had to attend a variety of global and regional meetings.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/09/sex-and-the-working-mom/

Top 50 Ranking of China’s Business Leaders Exposes Common Myths

“A general who fears to unsheathe his sword is not a good general,” says Mr. Li Jiaxiang, Chairman of Air China from 2004 to 2008 and the #1 performing corporate leader in China according to our new ranking (just published in the Harvard Business Review China and the centerpiece for the magazine’s launch events in Beijing and Shanghai).… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/07/top-50-ranking-of-chinas-business-leaders-exposes-common-myths/

To Close the Gender Gap, Focus on Assignments

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 ghettos,” relative to men. The report tells us that 50% to 65% of women at the vice-president level and higher are in staff roles, compared with only 41% to 48% of men, who are more likely to be in the line jobs that lead to the top.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/05/to-close-the-gender-gap-focus-on-assignments/

Help Women Take the Stage

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 viral. Lean in, she says to women, take your place at the table, seize the stage.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/02/help-women-take-the-stage/

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