Every crisis creates heroes. Tornado-ravaged Alabama has plenty this week. When my colleague David Whitford, a fellow editor-at-large at Fortune, emailed our staff today about one hero he knows, I asked him if I can share his note, below, with you on Postcards. Meet Pam Dorr--and thank you, David. -- Patricia Sellers
Pam Dorr
Six years ago when I was in Greensboro, Alabama, reporting the story The Most Famous Story We MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 29, 2011 2:13 PM ET
By Patricia Sellers
I'm in Austin, Texas today at the University of Texas School of Law's Women's confab -- and it means something that the organizers call their event the "Women's Power Summit."
So what does it mean?
We've come a very long way since my colleagues and I launched Fortune's Most Powerful Women in 1998. Back then, the vast majority of women leaders felt squeamish about the word.
POWER.
More women embrace power today MORE
ealfred - Apr 28, 2011 11:31 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Elizabeth McKee Gore works at Ted Turner's UN Foundation and oversees Global Partnerships there.
She told me the cool story about creating Nothing But Nets five years ago. The UN Foundation wanted to help cure the world of malaria. Her bosses charged her to develop a strategy to build a public campaign.
Credit: David Evans
She came up with a program called the UN Foundation Campaign to End Malaria. And MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 25, 2011 11:58 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
On Monday we asked, "Are girls afraid of money?"
America (and beyond) voted and...I don't know what to conclude except I know that the question stirred the pot.
In the heated debate that ensued, I particularly appreciated the viewpoint of Matt in Springfield, VA, who said he wasn't surprised by the results of the experiment in which five $20 bills were placed randomly on classroom desks, and female college students MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 22, 2011 3:35 PM ET
The debate rages on about women and money. After I published "Are women afraid of money?"--which stirred up this week's far-flung opinionated commentary--Susan Sobbott, president of American Express OPEN, emailed me her thoughts. Her note was so insightful that I asked her if I could run it as a Guest Post.
Credit: Ed Haas
Sobbott knows entrepreneurs. At American Express (AXP) since 1990, she has headed OPEN, the company's small-business card MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 21, 2011 10:49 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Monday's Postcard, asking "Are girls afraid of money?" is the blog post that keeps on giving.
Thanks, Postcards readers, for your spirited comments about Susan Wilson's Guest Post, in which she described placing $20 bills on random desks in a classroom at Georgetown University. The female students who walked into the room ignored the money--and wouldn't sit anywhere near it.
Some of you found Wilson's impromptu experiment bogus.
Fair enough. Others MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 20, 2011 12:42 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Monday's Postcard--detailing an experiment in which female undergrads revealed themselves to be practically allergic to $20 bills placed randomly in a classroom--drew a flood of comments and spirited debate about women and money.
Men, for the most part, said women do fear money. "Why the fear?" asked a Miami reader, Michael D. " "IMHO, it is learned behavior. Girls are bought things, boys are given opportunities to own them."
Other MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 19, 2011 12:24 PM ET
While visiting a friend's daughter at Georgetown University earlier this month, I got lured into meeting with a group of 15 undergrads. The session was great fun and illuminating. These were bright young women whose ambitions ranged, they told me, from cleaning up the global environmental to achieving world peace to building Fortune 500 companies.
Not one shrinking violets here.
The weekly convener of these students is Susan Wilson, CEO of The MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 18, 2011 11:39 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Today, on National Equal Pay Day, it's worth noting that women still make only 77 cents vs. the average man's dollar.
I may catch flak for saying this, but one reason is that women aren't as good at negotiating as men are. I know this from talking with hundreds of women in the Fortune's Most Powerful Women community. And many women on our annual Most Powerful Women list have MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 12, 2011 2:36 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Few career falls are as swift and spectacular as Cathie Black's.
It took just 95 days for the former boss of Hearst Magazines -- and alum of the Fortune Most Powerful Women list -- to get ousted as chancellor of New York City public schools.
Since her exit yesterday, Black had not talked to the press, except for "60 seconds in front of my apartment building last night," she said when she MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 8, 2011 1:18 PM ET
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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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