Postcards
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What I learned working for Martha Stewart
FORTUNE -- Beatrice Mwasi was looking for a spark. The founder of Sanabora Design House had founded a leather workshop in Kenya a decade ago and transformed it into a broad accessories and home goods business with more than 3,000 affiliate producers throughout Kenya. But her company's growth had slowed, and Mwasi felt frustrated.
That's just when the U.S. Embassy in Kenya reached out to Mwasi to apply for the 2013 MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - May 23, 2013 12:10 PM ET -
New York City's Christine Quinn wants no B.S.
New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn joined Fortune's Most Powerful Women community in New York for a candid discussion over dinner.
FORTUNE -- Christine Quinn has been called brash, controlling, volatile, hotheaded, aggressive, and more. Is New York City's candidate for mayor comfortable with those descriptions? "Pretty much," she shrugged. "I'm tough, and New Yorkers deserve that."
At Monday night's Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Manhattan's Time Warner Center, New York City Council Speaker MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - May 14, 2013 7:07 AM ET -
Senator Mikulski on inspiring bipartisan conversation
The longest-serving woman in U.S. Congress has a solution to keep Washington from gridlock. Hint: It involves more women.
FORTUNE -- If 76-year old Barbara Mikulski could time travel and chat with her 20-year old self, her advice would be simple: It doesn't matter that you're not 5'4". These sorts of quips—Mikulski's stature falls just short of five-feet—are key ingredients to the Maryland Senator's tell-it-like-it-is reputation. They popped up throughout MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - Apr 25, 2013 9:12 AM ET -
Update: Fortune 500 Women CEOs hits a record 20
FORTUNE -- As we noted yesterday, Yahoo's new chief Marissa Mayer is the youngest CEO in the Fortune 500. Mayer's appointment means that the Fortune 500 now has 20 female CEOs, a new record. Here's the list:
10. Meg Whitman - Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
19. Ginni Rometty - IBM (IBM)
28. Patricia Woertz - Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
41. Indra Nooyi - PepsiCo (PEP)
45. Angela Braly - WellPoint (WLP)
50. Irene Rosenfeld - Kraft Foods (KFT)
72. MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - Jul 18, 2012 9:30 AM ET -
The Marissa Mayer timeline
New Yahoo (YHOO) chief executive Marissa Mayer is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. At 37, she displaces her former boss, 39-year-old Google (GOOG) CEO Larry Page.
Mayer is also the youngest woman ever to make the Fortune Most Powerful Women list. In 2008, at 33, she locked down the No. 50 spot -- and rose to No. 38 on the 2011 MPW list.
Though Mayer has famously described herself (again MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - Jul 17, 2012 3:14 PM ET -
Fortune and Levo League connect to advise businesswomen
A year ago, I began my first day at Fortune magazine. A bundle of ambition with no direction, I wondered if I would sink or swim. During my first morning meeting, I was sandwiched between two writers discussing derivatives over coffee. I seriously questioned my own intelligence.
Within two weeks, my sea legs finally took. The Fortune Most Powerful Women brand -- and the editors behind it -- pushed me to MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - Jul 3, 2012 10:22 AM ET -
Mellody Hobson: Inside the boardroom
Mellody Hobson has worked at Ariel Investments ever since she started as a college intern in 1997. Maybe that's why she roams far and wide to hone her leadership skills and collect big ideas.
Besides overseeing operations at Chicago-based Ariel, the mutual fund company where she became president at 31, Hobson is on a bunch of big boards: DreamWorks Animation (DWA), Estée Lauder (EL), Groupon (GRPN), and Starbucks (SBUX).
Last week at MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - May 30, 2012 12:19 PM ET -
Hillary Clinton deputy shares career advice
Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff, discusses her winding career path from Saudi Arabia to Washington D.C. at Fortune's Most Powerful Women dinner. By Colleen Leahey
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - May 24, 2012 12:25 PM ET -
Hillary Clinton welcomes Fortune MPW mentees
The secretary of state welcomed participants into a program that connects rising businesswomen from emerging economies with U.S. corporate superstars.
FORTUNE -- The glasses of Sauvignon Blanc being passed about wasn't what was fueling the buzz that filled the U.S. State Department's Jefferson Room Monday evening. Instead, it was the knowledge that the "strongest advocate for women in the world," as assistant secretary of state Ann Stock put it, was about MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - May 1, 2012 12:29 PM ET -
Google's Marissa Mayer: How I got ahead
Marissa Mayer has been a pioneer in the unofficial "Geek is Chic" movement. Google's (GOOG) first female engineer, who is now the company's VP in charge of all things local, has appeared in Vogue, rocked the cover of Fortune's 40-Under-40 issue, and been nominated for Vanity Fair's 2011 International Best Dressed List. She is an angel investor in female-founded companies like Minted and One King's Lane. Mayer also mentors rising-star MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - Dec 1, 2011 11:59 AM ET
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In her first public interview since taking on the CEO gig at Yahoo, Marissa Mayer outlines her priorities both in and out of the company. Watch
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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The Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership brings rising-star women from countries around the world to the U.S. for three-week mentorships with participants of the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit - among them Ursula Burns of Xerox, Laura Lang of Time Inc., Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, and Tory Burch.
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