Abby Johnson finally breaks through the glass ceiling at Fidelity Investments and now she's busy taking big-time -- if calculated -- risks worthy of her father's legacy

Glass ceiling? Ah, she could have always worked somewhere else and not taken advantage of her father's nepotism?

You may be looking at the glass ceiling half full. :) Sure, it's easy to point to possible nepotism. The other possibility is that she is actually far more qualified than the average CEO who spent a career expending inordinate energies playing the internal politics needed to climb. With less of that burden, Abby may have been able to concentrate on honing her Fidelity-managing craft as it were. People I know on the inside largely give her credit for doing just that.

Terrific and the agility of privately held companies...good for her/them. They don't have to report quarterly earnings nor developments to anyone so they can take their longer term shots. And they have the $$ to do so. Good stuff