Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs 2011 is open for nominations and applications.
Each year, Fortune recognizes 10 female entrepreneurs who are outstanding game changers, groundbreakers, and innovators. We invite them as our special guests to the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit (this year, October 3-5 in Laguna Niguel, CA) and we share their success stories with our readers.
We're on the hunt for female founders of thriving U.S. or international companies with MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 30, 2011 11:08 AM ET
China's Yang Lan and Avon CEO Andrea Jung
Fortune and Yahoo (YHOO) are teaming up to present weekly content -- stories and videos -- about Most Powerful Women. This is the first in a series of Postcards that will appear on Yahoo and Fortune.com.
It's the start of Most Powerful Women season at Fortune Magazine.
This is the time we begin hunting in earnest for the most successful women in business around MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 29, 2011 9:30 AM ET
Who is more stressed than an information-overloaded, work-and-family-balancing, time-starved American woman?
Women in India, Mexico, Russia and Brazil, according to a study released by Nielsen (NLSN) today.
For its "Women of Tomorrow" study, the information and measurement company polled nearly 6,500 women in 21 countries and found that women in emerging markets generally feel more stressed than those in developed countries.
But across the developed world, there are several countries--Spain, France, and Italy--where MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 28, 2011 3:49 PM ET
Men are savvier online professional networkers than women. So concludes a recent study by LinkedIn (LNKD).
The study garnered lots of attention in the blogosphere, but are LinkedIn's findings really correct?
The professional networking site picked seven large companies -- such as Best Buy (BBY), Wal-Mart (WMT), and Lockheed Martin (LMT) -- and counted the number of "connections" that each company's registered LinkedIn users had.
The results: Men had more connections than women.
Nicole MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - Jun 28, 2011 10:43 AM ET
Last week in France, at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, Martha Stewart (MSO) and I both spoke about women, power and diversity at an event hosted by Interpublic Group (IPG).
IPG showed no teenage pictures of me, thank goodness. But they did show Martha at 15, long before she was a brand.
She distinctly remembers this day, she said. She had to be pulled out of school to film this Lifebuoy commercial.
Patricia Sellers - Jun 27, 2011 3:41 PM ET
Jeffrey Katzenberg
All marketing will be social.
That's the essential message here at the Cannes Lions advertising festival.
One guy who's quite eager to see this trend advance is DreamWorks Animation (DWA) CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. On stage today with WPP (WPPGY) chief Martin Sorrell and News Corp.'s (NWS) James Murdoch, Katzenberg predicted how consumers will choose movies in the near future:
"Somebody is going to create a website. You'll subscribe, go on it, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 24, 2011 10:49 AM ET
Shelly Lazarus, left, meets Mary Wells for the first time. Credit: mariannerussell.com
Greetings from France, where I spoke at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival yesterday. Today there's a certain reverence in the air. That's because today would be David Ogilvy's 100th birthday.
One of my favorite Postcards was David Ogilvy's best advice for business -- tips on leading and inspiring that the legendary ad man scrawled on a scrap of paper for me MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 23, 2011 9:42 AM ET
This morning at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival in France, Interpublic Group (IPG) recruited Martha Stewart, CNN's (TWX) Soledad O'Brien, and Coca-Cola (KO) SVP Wendy Clark, among other prominent women, to answer that question. My job there? Summarize their insights and share a few of my own.
All in all, there were plenty -- and way beyond the well-worn platitudes. It's worth sharing the three takeaways I talked about in my MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 22, 2011 11:08 AM ET
Once you make it to the top, it's easy to forget where you started.
But not for Robert Redford. On stage this morning at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, the legendary movie actor played career coach to an audience of aspiring creative execs.
"Go back to zero," Redford said, clearly intending his message for anyone who has accomplished anything in any industry anywhere. To explain this, he told a story about his MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 21, 2011 11:07 AM ET
Credit: Cindy Meehl
I recently met Buck Brannaman, the star of the new documentary Buck, at a screening hosted by Tom and Meredith Brokaw. This laconic cowboy cast a spell on the former NBC anchor and his wife, who have a home in Montana and got to know him up there in horse country. Buck cast a spell on me too. He was the inspiration for the best-selling novel "The MORE Patricia Sellers - Jun 17, 2011 3:00 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.
.
Fortune Most Powerful Women
Sheryl Sandberg:
Gina Bianchini
