By Julie Schlosser
Google's (GOOG) Megan Smith, Vice President of New Business Development, offered up a fresh approach to cost cutting during the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. It's sort of a twofer -- improve the bottom line by bringing employees into the conversation.
"Patrick Pichette [Google's CFO] said we needed to save a half billion dollars," Smith said. It was shortly after the crisis -- the economy was cratering and the MORE
Penelope Patsuris - Sep 16, 2009 4:26 PM ET
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, 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
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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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