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Sheryl Sandberg World Most Powerful Non Political Women: Awesome Real Life
Story
Forbes
in May 2013 released the List of "The World's Most Powerful Women 2013" , Sheryl
Sandberg was rated number one being world most powerful non political women and
sixth overall including political women. She is youngest in the Top 10 World's
Most Powerful Women 2013.
Sheryl Sandberg profile at glance.
She is COO, Facebook
Her Age is : 43 Years
Her source of wealth: Facebook
Her residence: Atherton, CA
Her country of citizenship: United States
Her education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Harvard University; Master of
Business Administration, Harvard University
Her marital status: Married
Her Children: Two
Global Ranking: World's Most Powerful non political Women 2013 by Forbes.
Sheryl Kara Sandberg was born on August 28, 1969. She is an American business
executive. She has served as the chief operating officer of Facebook since 2008.
In June 2012, she was also elected to the board of directors by the existing
board members, becoming the first woman to serve on its board. Before Facebook,
Sandberg was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. She
also was involved in launching Google's philanthropic arm Google.org. Before
Google, Sandberg served as chief of staff for the United States Secretary of the
Treasury. In 2012, she was named in Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most
influential people in the world assembled by Time.
Sandberg was born in 1969, in Washington, D.C., in a Jewish family, the daughter
of Adele and Joel Sandberg, and the oldest of three siblings. Her father is an
ophthalmologist, and her mother has a PhD and worked as a French teacher before
concentrating on raising her children. Her family moved to North Miami Beach,
Florida, when she was two years old. She attended public school, where she was
"always at the top of her class." Sandberg taught aerobics in the 1980s while in
high school. She is Jewish.
In 1987, Sandberg enrolled at Harvard College and graduated in 1991 summa cum
laude with an A.B. in economics and was awarded the John H. Williams Prize for
the top graduating student in economics. While at Harvard, Sandberg met
then-professor Larry Summers who became her mentor and thesis adviser. Summers
recruited her to be his research assistant at the World Bank, where she worked
for approximately one year on health projects in India dealing with leprosy,
AIDS, and blindness. In 1993, she enrolled at Harvard Business School and in
1995 she earned her M.B.A. with highest distinction.
After graduating from business school in the spring of 1995, Sandberg worked as
a management consultant for McKinsey & Company for approximately one year. From
1996 to 2001, Sandberg served as Chief of Staff to then United States Secretary
of the Treasury Larry Summers under President Bill Clinton where she helped lead
the Treasury�s work on forgiving debt in the developing world during the Asian
financial crisis. She joined Google Inc. in 2001 and served as its Vice
President of Global Online Sales & Operations, from November 2001 to March 2008.
She was responsible for online sales of Google's advertising & publishing
products and also for sales operations of Google's consumer products & Google
Book Search.
In late 2007, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, met
Sandberg at a Christmas party held by Dan Rosensweig; at the time, she was
considering becoming a senior executive for The Washington Post Company.
Zuckerberg had no formal search for a COO, but thought of Sandberg as "a perfect
fit" for this role. They spent more time together in January 2008 at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and in March 2008, Facebook announced
hiring Sheryl Sandberg away from Google.
After joining the company, Sandberg quickly began trying to figure out how to
make Facebook profitable. Before she joined, the company was "primarily
interested in building a really cool site; profits, they assumed, would follow."
By late spring, Facebook's leadership had agreed to rely on advertising, "with
the ads discreetly presented"; by 2010, Facebook became profitable. According to
Facebook, Sandberg oversees the firm's business operations including sales,
marketing, business development, human resources, public policy and
communications.
Sandberg's executive compensation for FY 2011 was $300,000 base salary plus
$30,491,613 in FB shares. According to her Form 3, she also owns 38,122,000
stock options and restricted stock units (worth approx. $1.45 billion as of
mid-May 2012) that will be completely vested by May 2022, subject to her
continued employment through the vesting date.
In 2012 she became the eighth member (and the first female member) of Facebook's
board of directors. In October 2012, Business Insider reported that stock units
(appx. 34 million) vested in Sandberg's name accounted for nearly $790,000,000.
Facebook withheld roughly 15 million of those stocks for tax reasons, leaving
Sandberg with a neighborhood of nearly $417,000,000.Sandberg was married at age
24 but divorced a year later. She then went on in 2004 to marry David Goldberg,
with whom she has two children. In 2009, Sandberg was named to the board of The
Walt Disney Company. She also serves on the boards of Women for Women
International, the Center for Global Development and V-Day. She was previously a
board member of Starbucks with a $280,000 annual salary, Brookings Institution
and Ad Council.
Sheryl Sandberg has been ranked one of the 50 "Most Powerful Women in Business"
by Fortune Magazine:
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In 2007, she was ranked #29 and was the youngest woman on the list.
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In 2008, she was ranked #34.
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In 2009, she was ranked #22.
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In 2010, she was ranked #16.
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In 2007, she was ranked #19 on 50 "Women to Watch" by The Wall Street
Journal.
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She was ranked #21 on that list in 2008.
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Sandberg was named one of the "25 Most Influential People on the Web" by
Business Week in 2009.
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In 2011, she was ranked #5 on "the world's 100 most powerful women" by
Forbes.
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In 2012, Newsweek and The Daily Beast released their first "Digital
Power Index," a list of the 100 most significant people in the digital world
that year (plus 10 additional "Lifetime Achievement" winners), and she was
ranked #3 in the "Evangelists" category.
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In 2012, she was ranked #5 on the "The World's 50 Most Influential Jews"
conducted by the Jerusalem Post.
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Also in 2012, she was named in Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most
influential people in the world assembled by Time.
In 2008, Sandberg wrote an article for The Huffington Post in support of her
mentor, Larry Summers, who was under fire for his comments about women. She was
a keynote speaker at the Jewish Community Federation's Business Leadership
Council in 2010.[35] In December 2010, she gave a TED speech titled "Why we have
too few women leaders." In May 2011 she gave the Commencement Address at the
Barnard College graduation ceremony. She spoke as the keynote speaker at the
Class Day ceremony at the Harvard Business School in May 2012. In April 2013,
she was the keynote speaker for Colgate University's second annual Entrepreneur
Weekend.
In 2013, Sandberg released her first book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to
Lead, co-written with journalist and TV writer Nell Scovell. It is about
business leadership and development, issues with the lack of women in government
and business leadership positions, and feminism.
Sheryl Sandberg released her first book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to
Lead, co-authored by Nell Scovell and published by Knopf on March 11, 2013. Lean
In is a book for professional women to help them achieve their career goals and
for men who want to contribute to a more equitable society. The book looks at
the barriers preventing women from taking leadership roles in the workplace,
barriers such as discrimination, blatant and subtle sexism and sexual
harassment. She also examines societal barriers such as the fact that women
still work the double day and the devaluing of work inside the home as opposed
to work outside the home. Along with the latter there are the barriers that
women create for themselves through internalizing systematic discrimination and
societal gender roles. Sandberg argues that in order for change to happen women
need to break down these societal and personal barriers by striving for and
achieving leadership roles. The ultimate goal is to encourage women to lean in
to positions of leadership because she asserts that by having more female voices
in positions of power there will be more equitable opportunities created for
everyone.
�A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and
companies and men ran half our homes.�
Sandberg's book inspired the Lean In movement, which aims to help women achieve
their professional and personal goals by "leaning into their ambitions". The
movement provides support in three key ways: community, education and circles.
The community focuses on exchanging information and ideas through stories to
encourage other women to lean in. The education section is a collection of free
lectures to help individuals develop their skills and learn new ones. Lastly the
circle's component focuses on small groups that provide a safe online space for
collaboration and support.
Much of the criticism Sandberg has faced for her book is the fact that she is
writing from a position of privilege and the perception that she is attempting
to represent all women. Critics claim that she is �too elitist� and that she is
�tone-deaf to the problems average women face as they struggle to make ends meet
in a rough economy, while taking care of kids, aging parents and housework�.
Sandberg�s credentials to advise are questioned because she is a Harvard
graduate and is a part of the small circle of elite powerful women, a factor
that is not often a barrier to men in the same position.
Sandberg addresses both of these issues in the introduction of her book, stating
that she is �acutely aware that the vast majority of women are struggling to
make ends meet and take care of their families. Parts of this book will be most
relevant to women fortunate enough to have choices about how much and when and
where to work� and that �my intention is to offer advice that would have been
useful long before I had heard of Google or Facebook and that will resonate with
women in a broad range of circumstances.�
Sheryl Sandberg said �I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I�m home
for dinner with my kids at 6:00, and interestingly, I�ve been doing that since I
had kids,� Sandberg says. �I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and
I would say it�s not until the last year, two years that I�m brave enough to
talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn�t lie, but I wasn�t running
around giving speeches on it.� I was getting up earlier to make sure they saw my
emails at 5:30, staying up later to make sure they saw my emails late. But now I
think I�m much more confident in where I am and so I�m able to say, �Hey! I am
leaving work at 5:30.� And I say it very publicly, both internally and
externally.�
"I've cried at work. I've told people I've cried at work. And it's been reported
in the press that 'Sheryl Sandberg cried on Mark Zuckerberg's shoulder,' which
is not exactly what happened. I talk about my hopes and fears and ask people
about theirs. I try to be myself�honest about my strengths and weaknesses�and I
encourage others to do the same. It is all professional and it is all personal,
all at the very same time."
Forbes writes about her "Facebook's COO incited a new conversation on feminism
in the workplace with her March 2013 book, "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to
Lead." The manifesto sold nearly 150,000 copies in its first week and has held
the top non-fiction spot on bestseller lists since. But Sandberg's biggest
success of the year may have happened right in Menlo Park. After adding ads to
its mobile news feed, Facebook earned more U.S. mobile revenue than any other
publisher in 2012, with an 18.4% share of the entire market. The April release
of "Home," the new Facebook phone, will reportedly allow companies to send
advertising directly to users' smartphones even if the home screen is locked.
2013".
Sheryl Sandberg Addresses the Class of 2012
Dated 08 July 2013
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