演讲文本

Not just those of us lucky enough to go to HBS

不仅是那些能到HBS读书的幸运儿

but anyone with access to Facebook, to Twitter, to a mobile phone

而是任何能上Facebook Twitter或者有手机的人

This is disrupting traditional power structures

这正在打破传统的权利结构

and leveling traditional hierarchy

让传统的阶层界限变得模糊

Voice and power are shifting from institutions to individuals

话语权正从机构转向个人

from the historically powerful to the historically powerless

从曾经有权有势的人转向普通人

And all of this is happening so much faster

而且这一切的变化速度远远超出了

than I could have ever imagined

当时坐在今天你们所坐的

when I was sitting where you are today

位置上的我的想像

and Mark Zuckerberg was 11 years old

那时候 马克·扎克伯格才十一岁

As the world becomes more connected and less hierarchical

当世界变得更紧密 界限更模糊时

traditional career paths are shifting as well

传统的职业生涯也在发生变化

In 2001, after working in the government

2001年 在为政府工作了几年之后

I moved out to Silicon Valley to try to find a job

我搬到硅谷 找到一份工作

My timing wasn't really that good

当时并不是个好时机

The bubble had crashed

泡沫破灭了

Small companies were closing

小公司都在倒闭

Big companies were laying people off

大公司都在裁员

One women CEO looked at me and said

一个女性CEO看着我说

we would never even think about hiring someone like you

我们根本不会考虑招你这样的人

After a while I had a few offers and I had to make a decision

过了一段时间 我拿到几个offers 需要做决定了

so what did I do? I am MBA trained

那么我是怎么做的呢？由于我受过MBA的训练

so I made a spreadsheet

所以我做了一个Excel表

I listed my jobs in the columns

我把工作都列了出来

and the things for my criteria in the rows

并且一行行把我的评判标准也列了出来

and compared the companies, the missions, and the roles

比较公司的远景 工作的职责等

One of the jobs on that sheet was

表格中有一个工作

to become Google's first Business Unit general manager

是去做Google的第一个业务部总经理

which sounds good now

这现在听起来很不错

but at the time no one thought

但是当时没人相信

consumer internet companies could ever make money

直接面对消费者的互联网公司可以赚钱

I was not sure there was actually a job there at all

我都不敢确定那儿是不是真有这样的职位

人物简介和演讲视频

人物简介
哈佛商学院迎来了2012年毕业典礼，院长Nohria邀请到Facebook COO谢丽尔·桑德伯格来为2012届的毕业生做演讲。作为哈佛商学院学姐，IT界名人，桑德伯格与2012届的毕业生们分享了自己成功的经验，用自己的亲身经历告诉在坐的毕业生们，作为一名领导者应该如何聆听下属的声音，并鼓励女性毕业生在未来的道路上勇于踏上高级别职位，真正实现男女平等。并且，在最后，对哈佛商学院2012届毕业生提了三个愿望。