By Leigh Gallagher
FDIC chief Sheila Bair gave an insightful and informative interview to CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo in one of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit's headline sessions today.
Bair, No.3 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women in Washington list, spent most of the interview doing what she probably does a lot of these days -- clearing up confusion about her agency in the public view. Right off the bat, Bair disputed MORE
Penelope Patsuris - Sep 15, 2009 8:56 PM ET
By Beth Kowitt
Want to know what the next big thing is for investors? Look for industries that haven't hopped onto the digital wave, said Nancy Peretsman of Allen & Co. during Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit.
"You can see that for very few businesses," said Peretsman in a session on investor insight with Juliet Flint, partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.
Essentially none of the women at Fortune's conference can say MORE
Jennifer Lai - Sep 15, 2009 4:38 PM ET
By Beth Kowitt, Fortune reporter
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg offered up some tips on how businesses can best use the social networking site during Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit.
The biggest key: companies can't think about using the site in the same way they have conceived of traditional advertising, says the Facebook COO, who is No. 22 on Fortune's 2009 Most Powerful Women list.
The beauty of Facebook is the immediacy with which businesses MORE
Penelope Patsuris - Sep 15, 2009 4:14 PM ET
Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz is speaking with Fortune Managing Editor Andrew Serwer, and she's taking questions from the audience. Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit attendee and tech editor Stephanie N. Mehta is sitting in the front row, with dispatches from the Four Seasons Resort Aviara.
But first, she pooh-poohed talk of her salty language: "I don't think it's that interesting, personally."
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As she was coming up in business, Bartz MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Sep 15, 2009 4:06 PM ET
Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz is speaking with Fortune Managing Editor Andrew Serwer. Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit attendee and tech editor Stephanie N. Mehta is sitting in the front row, with dispatches from the Four Seasons Resort Aviara.
Bartz, No. 8 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list, is explaining why she took the Yahoo job: She flunked retirement. "Cocktail hour went from 6 (p.m.) to 4 (p.m.)," she joked.Joking aside, MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Sep 15, 2009 3:53 PM ET
Sitting through the "Big Get-to-Know-You," a signature event at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, I'm struck by the number of women here who work for tech companies, or who are top tech executives as their corporations - or are top tech executives at tech companies (Vitria's Jomei Chang, Intel's (INTC) Diane Bryant just to name two). There are women here from IBM (IBM), Dell, (DELL), Symantec (SYMC), Apple (AAPL) MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Sep 15, 2009 12:00 PM ET
Pepsico (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi, No. 1 on the 2009 Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business list, is looking for leaders who can adapt and borrow ideas from the outside--"lift and shift," she calls it.
Also, see the video, posted Thursday on Postcards, of Nooyi talking about managing in the new "age of thrift."
Watch Postcards this week for one more video of Pattie's recent talk with Nooyi. The Queen of Pop talks about MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 14, 2009 4:04 PM ET
Today begins the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit--our annual gathering of the world's most influential women in business, government, philanthropy and the arts. Oh, and a few powerful men are here in sunny southern California with us too. Among them: Warren Buffett (BRKB) will be interviewed by my colleague, Fortune senior editor at large Carol Loomis, tomorrow. Tonight, Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein will present the Fortune-Goldman Sachs Global Women MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 14, 2009 3:51 PM ET
"Oprah Winfrey came in sixth. The bodies of one through five have not been found."
-- Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien, commenting on Oprah's place on the 2009 Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business list. The new issue is on newsstands today!
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 14, 2009 2:41 PM ET
I co-hosted CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning, when we unveiled Fortune's 2009 Most Powerful Women in Business list--topped by PepsicCo (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi for the fourth year in a row.
With us on the show: bank-industry analyst Meredith Whitney, No. 39 in Fortune's rankings. She stayed after co-hosting Squawk Box the hour before--and made news, by the way, predicting that home prices will continue to fall and unemployment will go MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 11, 2009 2:29 PM ET
For the latest on the most influential women in business, philanthropy, government, and the arts, like us on Facebook. 
In a funny and candid interview, Google VP Marissa Mayer explains how she got to the top. Watch
Xerox CEO Ursula Burns shares how she once accepted a job with Dell but ended up staying with Xerox. Watch
Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie's blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.
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