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Women and the labyrinth of leadership / by Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli -- Do women lack ambition? / by Anna Fels -- Women rising: the unseen barriers / by Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb -- Women and the vision thing / by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru -- The power of talk: who gets heard and why / by Deborah Tannen -- The memo every woman keeps in her desk / by Kathleen Reardon -- Why diversity programs fail / by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev -- Now what? (managing #metoo) / by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock -- The battle for female talent in emerging markets / by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid -- Off-ramps and on-ramps: keeping talented women on the road to success / by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce -- Bonus article: Sheryl Sandberg: the HBR interview -- An interview with Sheryl Sandberg by Adi Ignatius.

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