On September 11, 2009
Don’t Tell Cynthia Carroll that Mining is Man’s Work
By any stretch of the imagination, it’s an improbable career progression. Born in New Jersey and educated at Skidmore, Cynthia Carroll is today CEO of the world’s fourth largest mining company, Anglo American plc. How improbable? When she became CEO in 2007, Carroll was the first woman and first non–South African to helm the $26 billion-in-revenue company. In fact, as a profile of the executive in the HBS Alumni Bulletin makes clear, South Africa prohibited women from working underground until just a few years ago. Her first major step was a doozie: shutting down an accident-plagued South African platinum mine and retraining its 28,000 employees. “We lost millions of dollars while production was curtailed, but it was the right thing…
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