FORTUNE -- Last week's Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Manhattan convened established stars, like Martha Stewart and Barbara Walters, with rising stars, like Chelsea Clinton and Barbara Bush. Two daughters of political dynasties converging in the same orbit.
And then there were 26 rising-star women from across the developing world--each a participant in the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring program. These young women were in the U.S. shadowing MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 31, 2011 12:09 PM ET
Readers have been ravenous for "Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge: Eating only what he kills." Thursday's Postcard continues to generate huge traffic and a never-ending debate: Is Facebook's founder and CEO crazy or is he the most rational billionaire in Silicon Valley?
No surprise, the name-calling given Zuckerberg's "personal challenges," as he describes them--from the Year of the Tie to learning Chinese to eating meat only from creatures he kills. The 27-year-old MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 31, 2011 9:40 AM ET
Yesterday we told you about Mark Zuckerberg's 2011 challenge to himself: "The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself," the Facebook founder and CEO told Fortune in an interview.
As we detailed, an inkling of "Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge" popped up on his private Facebook page a few weeks ago. On May 4, the 27-year-old billionaire told his 847 friends: "I just killed a pig and a goat."
His MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 27, 2011 3:18 PM ET
Last year Mark Zuckerberg set out to learn Chinese. Now he's determined to get in touch with his food. If the goats, lobsters and chickens of Silicon Valley aren't trembling, they should be.
The eyes of a hunter.
When he's not too busy connecting people across the universe, Mark Zuckerberg is pursuing a new "personal challenge," as he calls it. "The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself," says MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 26, 2011 2:29 PM ET
The Xerox CEO shares advice from her own mentor.
FORTUNE -- For virtually every rising executive, it seems as though finding a mentor along the way is key. Xerox (XRX) CEO Ursula Burns didn't have to look very far to find hers early on. It was her mom.
Xerox CEO Ursula Burns
"My mother was an amazing woman," she said Tuesday at Fortune's Most Powerful Women dinner in New York City, where MORE
Nin-Hai Tseng, writer-reporter - May 24, 2011 10:35 PM ET
Fortune dinner attendees Barbara Bush (left) and Chelsea Clinton. Photo credit: CARE Conference and Kyle Cassidy
"Leaders must role model what GREAT looks like."
In her comments at the "Fortune Most Powerful Women Evening With..." dinner in New York City Tuesday night McKinsey & Co. 's Joanna Barsh was talking about the importance of corporate women leaders helping middle managers. But her comments helped set the tone for the evening, which MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - May 24, 2011 10:09 PM ET
Real power, I've often said, is what you can do beyond your job description.
Google VP Marissa Mayer
The 180 women convening tonight at the annual "Fortune Most Powerful Women Evening With..." dinner in New York City know this -- or they will before the night is done. Among the leaders with us will be Xerox (XRX) CEO Ursula Burns (who I will be interviewing at tonight's event), Wal-Mart (WMT) Chief MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 24, 2011 1:14 PM ET
It's a stunner that Dick Ebersol quit NBC Universal (CMCSA) yesterday. The man who ran NBC Sports for 22 years. The King of the Olympics. The guy who hired Lorne Michaels, who created Saturday Night Live. Ebersol produced SNL during a short stint outside sports entertainment -- and got the girl when actress Susan Saint James hosted the show. They fell in love and married.
None of that drama, though, compares MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 20, 2011 3:55 PM ET
Buffett will appear tonight on the one hour NBC season finale of The Office at 9/8c.
Tonight on the season finale of The Office, a galaxy of stars will be jostling to replace the hapless Michael Scott as boss of Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch. You'll see Jim Carrey, Ray Romano, Ricky Gervais, and...Warren Buffett.
Warren Buffett visits Dunder Mifflin
It's a quick cameo for the famous investor, but Buffett had a juicier role MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 19, 2011 2:42 PM ET
Linda Robinson. Credit: Richard Van Le
Linda Robinson is leaving the PR firm Robinson Lerer Montgomery to join BlackRock.
Linda Robinson sounded like Oprah in her stunning announcement that she's leaving her namesake PR firm, Robinson Lerer Montgomery, to join BlackRock. "The last 25 years have been an amazing journey and I'm excited for the next chapter in my life," she wrote in a Monday afternoon email that bounced around MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 18, 2011 12:22 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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