It used to be that in order to reach more people than you could talk to in a day, you had to be rich and famous and powerful. You had to be a celebrity, a politician, a CEO. But that’s not true today. Now ordinary people have voice, not just those of us lucky to go to HBS, but anyone with access to Facebook, Twitter, a mobile phone. This is disrupting traditional power structures and leveling traditional hierarchy. Control and power are shifting from institutions to individuals, from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. And all of this is happening so much faster than I could have imagined when I was sitting where you are today - and Mark Zuckerberg was 11 years old.

- Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, during a speech given on Harvard Business School Class Day, Wednesday, May 23, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

(Source: The Huffington Post)