Forbes’ Most Powerful Women
Posted on August 25th, 2011 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
These lists need to be taken with a grain of salt, of course. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth pointing out when they seem particularly off-base.
Forbes just released its annual list of most powerful women. (Not that Forbes knows much about women, but that’s another subject.)
Facebook exec (and Larry Summers friend) Sheryl Sandberg—she’s having a good year—is at #5, just a couple notches behind the presidents of Germany and Brazil and the US secretary of state.
From everything I’ve read, Sandberg’s most important play at Facebook seems to be concluding that the site shouldn’t charge its users, which it never seriously considered doing. That may just be because of a lack of good reporting, but….#5? Seriously? If Facebook vanished tomorrow, after two weeks would anyone really miss it?
Gisele Bunchen is at #60.
Drew Faust is at #83.
Drew Faust is 23 places behind Gisele Bunchen?
2 Responses
8/25/2011 1:43 pm
In my world Drew Faust is more than 23 places behind Gisele, but I might be judging by different criteria than Forbes.
8/28/2011 9:06 am
Who cares what raking DGF occupies? what matters is that Harvard is well above Yale… and above all other universities for that matter.