Women in Business

Print and eBook. In Lean In Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled. She explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential. Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

The first black woman Harvard MBA tells the remarkable story of how she achieved the American dream Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first black woman to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School and, later, the founder of a $20 million maintenance company with 1,200 employees.

Fu knows what it's like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. Fu also knows what it's like to be a pioneering software programmer, an innovator, and Inc Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year.

The personal account of a professional woman who fought against sexual discrimination by a major accounting firm and won. Hopkins describes her life before, during and after the seven years of litigation that led to the court ruling in her favour.

Carly Fiorina is the most admired-and most vilified-woman in corporate America. Recruited in 1999 to run Hewlett-Packard, the legendary company that helped invent Silicon Valley, she promised big changes from the moment she arrived.

Behind the headlines-one of the most talked-about business leaders in the world tells her own story.

Utopian Entrepreneur is a field manual for those who want to do socially positive work in the context of business. One of the few Silicon Valley veterans who participated in all four of the major computer tech bubbles -- games, multimedia, virtual reality, and dot-coms -- Brenda Laurel is known for injecting humanistic values into computer-based media.

She's known as a diva of domesticity, entrepreneur, media magnate, and a living brand. She has legions of fans and at the same time, many detractors.

"Lawrence recounts her experience in the American advertising industry from the 1950s through the 1980s" (booknews).

In terms of power and influence, you can forget the church, forget politics. There is no more powerful institution in society than business, which is why I believe it is now more important than ever before for business to assume a moral leadership. The business of business should not be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed. Anita Roddick

A page-turning narrative about Marissa Mayer's efforts to remake Yahoo as well as her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a $30 billion corporation by the age of 38.

Road to Power is the story of how Mary Barra drove herself to the pinnacle of a company that steers the nation's wealth. Beginning as a rare female electrical engineer and daughter of a General Motors die maker, Barra spent more than thirty years building her career before becoming the first woman to ever lead a global automaker.