Sandberg

That winter, Sandberg met with Eric Schmidt, who was then the C. E. O. of Google, about her desire to do something else at the company.

As the meeting winds down, a product manager shows a slide that nearly makes Sandberg jump out of her seat.

Sandberg says she's not daunted by the challenge, but adds that the only expectations that Facebook is trying to meet are its own.

When told of Sandberg's answer, Mitchell affectionately said, "I'm going to have to sit with her and revisit this. "

The Sandberg children attended public school, and Sheryl was always at the top of her class.

Sandberg seemed to have insulted some of her former colleagues.

The ease with which Sandberg marshals such support has friends and admirers constantly wondering what comes after Facebook.

Last month, Sandberg delivered a speech on leadership to the U. S. Naval Academy as part of its annual Foreign Affairs Conference.

Sandberg, who goes to bed early and starts e-mailing at 5 A. M. , often had to usher the nocturnal Zuckerberg out at midnight.

Even with all that, Sandberg now faces her toughest challenge.

Nonetheless, Sandberg claims that she was not a feminist.

Sandberg reports that she simply picked up the phone and asked Harvard professor Richard Pipes.

Sandberg set up twice-a-week meetings with Zuckerberg, on Monday mornings and Friday afternoons.

However, Ms Sandberg argues that the effectiveness of these free services is prompting the big brands to advertise.

Sandberg said Prince Daniel's speech, delivered on such a grand stage, gave a big boost to his public image.

"We think one of the best ways to stay small is just to stay smaller, " Sandberg says later.

Even under Sandberg's watch, the company has repeatedly angered consumers over what's private and what's public on Facebook.

So for six weeks they met for dinner once or twice a week at Sandberg's six-bedroom home.

Sandberg wants to let advertisers burrow even deeper into the social fabric of the site.

"It was like dating, " says Dave Goldberg, Sandberg's husband and the C. E. O. of the online company SurveyMonkey.

Sandberg argues the company has searched for the right balance on privacy.

Interestingly, Sheryl Sandberg [HBS MBA '95], the new COO of Facebook, recently talked about such a campaign.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, offered a potential solution in an online video for Fast Company magazine.

Sandberg and the female executives in the room said that they thought it risked being a "girl question" if it was asked in a "whiny" way.

To Mitchell, Sandberg's talk has had such broad appeal because she wasn't complaining; she was saying, "Let's look inside. "

No one needs a Sandberg more than the company that currently has her.

He expanded his management team, hiring Google executive Sheryl Sandberg as his No. 2 in March of that year.

The women in the network seem to agree with Sandberg that sexism in America is mainly a problem that women can fix by being more assertive.

Sandberg and many other women in Silicon Valley think the problems women encounter are usually more subtle than blatant sexism.

In January of 1991, Summers became the chief economist at the World Bank, and that spring he recruited Sandberg as a research assistant.

"I agree, " Sandberg said, retreating from the much sterner position she had taken moments ago.

Households with equal earning power and shared responsibility for kids and chore typically have half the divorce rate, Sandberg said.

Ms Sandberg is doing her part to change this by encouraging women to be more assertive and by building an "old girls' network" .

Goler asked what problems she could solve; Sandberg hired her as the head of recruiting.

Sandberg helped to develop much of this basic playbook during her time at Google.

By February of 2008, Zuckerberg had concluded that Sandberg would be a perfect fit.

Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, is a former Clinton Administration official.

Sandberg's impeccably political response: She's happy friending Mark Zuckerberg for as long as they're changing the world.

Sandberg hopes the new procedures discussed at these meetings will allow the Palo Alto company to maintain a moderate pace of hiring.

At every stage of her time in school, Sandberg thought, I really fooled them.

After that, Sandberg visited each under secretary and asked how she could make their job easier.

Some critics, however, note that Sandberg is not exactly a typical working mother.

He moved to the Netherlands and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and in the Sandberg Institute.

Sandberg volunteered to oversee sales and operations for the project.

"No man would ever turn down more responsibility, " Sandberg admonished her.

Sandberg's light touch stands in stark contrast to the nerd machismo of other Valley icons.

Sandberg joined the company in late 2001.

"Leaning back, " as Sandberg calls this approach, can kill a promising career.

Sheryl Sandberg, the company's chief operating officer, holds 1. 9 million shares, about 0. 1 percent of the company.

Sandberg graduated first in the economics department.

Jennifer Sandberg is a law partner in the Atlanta offices of Fisher & Phillips.

During the talk, Sandberg looked around the room and saw people nodding.

"I think Sandberg totally underestimates the challenge that women face, " she says.

By 2010, a company that was bleeding cash when Sandberg arrived had become profitable.

In some ways, Sandberg is still a creature of Washington.

Sandberg was born in 1969, in Washington, D. C. Her family moved to North Miami Beach when she was two.

Beyond Facebook, the other social network that Sheryl Sandberg has been fervently scaling is her own.

When Summers advanced to Treasury Secretary, in 1999, Sandberg became, at twenty-nine, his chief of staff.

His top lieutenant is Sheryl Sandberg, who left Google in 2008 to become Facebook's chief operating officer.

One day this spring, I spoke with Sandberg about these issues.

Ms Sandberg would not have that problem.

If you have time to watch Sandberg's talk, what did you think?

One thing that struck me (and the folks at XX Factor) is Sandberg's advice: 'Don't leave before you leave. '

Sandberg went to Harvard, where she majored in economics and took Lawrence Summers's class in Public Sector Economics.

Soon after Sandberg joined Facebook, in March of 2008, Lori Goler, a Harvard Business School graduate who had worked at eBay, called.

I, in fact, did exactly what Sandberg warns against.

I hear what Sandberg is saying, but I don't think that advice applies to everyone.

Sandberg also will help Facebook avoid another privacy fiasco such as the storm caused by its Beacon ad-tracking technology.

I might frame it on my wall, " Sandberg says. " Guys, this is the difference.

With leaders like Sandberg, we will.

But Sandberg didn't always take comfort in her clout, as author Ken Auletta writes in the story: