You’ve no doubt heard of the glass ceiling — the barrier above which women couldn’t rise professionally — but have you heard about the glass cliff? It’s not as familiar a term as the ceiling, but the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In the dynamic landscape of leadership, a striking but often unnoticed contrast significantly shapes our understanding of ...

A 2014 study found that Fortune 500 companies were likely to promote women into CEO positions over white men when those companies were struggling in a phenomenon that has been dubbed “the glass cliff.

To be clear, I think the answer to this is no. So many things go into this election loss that you can’t sum it up in a trite phrase. However, because Biden stepped down from the election before the ...

Women keep getting promoted during crisis moments. The new glass cliff is subtle, systemic, and is reshaping leadership in the IT channel. For decades, we have relied on metaphors to describe the ...

Columbia’s presidential search committee hopes to have the 21st University president take office no later than Jan. 1, 2026. The University’s previous selection of Minouche Shafik as Columbia’s 20th ...

Julie Castro Abrams, experienced CEO and founder of How Women Lead, venture capitalist and sought-after speaker on female entrepreneurship. How can we move the needle and centers of power enough so ...

In the Netflix series “The Chair,” Sandra Oh’s character, Ji Yoon Kim, becomes the chair of an English Department at a fictitious university during a time of unprecedented crisis for the department.

In difficult times, people are more likely to appoint women and people of colour to be leaders. But this puts crisis leaders in a very precarious position. When Carol Bartz was appointed CEO at Yahoo ...

Are women in leadership roles judged more harshly than men because people are just harder on women? Or is it because women are simply worse at leadership than men? Or could it be that people come ...