Sheryl Sandberg

COO
Facebook

Sheryl Sandberg was Facebook's first high-profile hire, coming to the social-networking site from Google earlier this year. At Facebook, she manages a wide swath of the company's business operations, including sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy and communications. Ms. Sandberg was vice president of global online sales and operations at Google, where she built and managed the online sales channels for advertising and publishing and operations for consumer products globally. She was also instrumental in launching Google's philanthropic arm. Ms. Sandberg was previously chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton. She was also a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and an economist with the World Bank. She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and was also an undergraduate at Harvard.

Posts With Sheryl Sandberg

Facebook’s New, New Ad Plan

Keep in touch via Facebook, this is critical to your future success. And we’re public now, so can you click on an ad or two when you’re there?

– Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, speaking at Harvard Business School’s “Class Day” event Wednesday

Will Thompson’s Ouster Mean a Yahoo-Facebook Patent Settlement, Too?

Mike Isaac in News on May 13 at 11:00 am PT

If the next Yahoo CEO doesn’t want to go to the mattresses like its just-ousted one, it could mean peace with Facebook.

Voices

Facebook Roadshow Bloopers (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on May 10 at 3:27 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

Facebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With Zuckerberg (No Guarantee on Tie)

Kara Swisher in Social on May 1 at 5:58 am PT

Camille, scramble the private jets, stat!

No Balance

So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.

– Sheryl Sandberg, in an interview for the PBS/AOL digital and broadcast series “Makers: Women Who Make America”

Levo League Wants to Help You Find a Job — If You’re a Gen-Y Woman (Video)

Peter Kafka in Social on March 20 at 5:00 am PT

There are plenty of places on the Web to network, job-hunt and look for career advice. Caroline Ghosn and Amanda Pouchot explain why their new site is different.

Facebook Pitches Advertisers on a New Ad Model

Peter Kafka in Media on February 29 at 3:00 am PT

Sheryl Sandberg runs a $3 billion ad business. But if her new plan works, that number could get a whole lot bigger.

Voices

Not This Time: Facebook’s Board Should Optimize for Wisdom, Not Diversity

Lise Buyer, Founder, Class V Group in Voices on February 15 at 3:39 pm PT

I am not arguing that boards don’t need diversity. Most of the time they do, but let’s pick those fights thoughtfully and where the board has power.

News Byte

Facebook Buddies Up to Marketers at New York Event

Peter Kafka in Social on February 7 at 11:18 am PT

Want to know more about Facebook’s ad plans in advance of its IPO? You may get a bit of insight at the end of the month. The social network is planning a half-day program geared toward marketers, which it will host at New York’s Museum of Natural History. Facebook says COO Sheryl Sandberg will kick off the program, which will include “inspirational breakout sessions” and a chat with an unnamed “esteemed guest.”