By Daniel Bates, Michael Zennie and Thomas Durante PUBLISHED: 13:27 EST, 24 May 2012 | UPDATED: 13:50 EST, 24 May 2012 Facebook's chief operating officer joked about the company's disastrous public offering during a speech to Harvard Business School students. Sheryl Sandberg, 42, asked the class yesterday to click on the social network's advertisements now that the company had gone public. In the 22-minute speech, where she offered advice based on her career success, the executive quipped: 'We’re public now. So can you click on an ad or two while you’re there?' Scroll down for video Words of wisdom: Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg made light of the company's woes during a speech to Harvard Business School in Allston, Massachusetts
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Sheryl Sandberg, 42, attended Harvard Business School 17 years ago
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She explained to this year's Harvard class that although she had been offered jobs elsewhere, she went to work at @placeholder because 'if you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat.