Postcards

A Grammy-nominated executive strikes again

Chandrika Tandon, financial advisor (and sister of Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi), talks about her new album -- and work-life balance.chandrika

The "skills gap": As bad as (almost) everyone thinks

A new McKinsey report finds students and companies alike worry that grads are unprepared for entry-level jobs. Schools? Not so much.

FORTUNE -- It is becoming a common complaint among CEOs and other top corporate executives: They can't find enough skilled workers. One economist recently told Fortune he has job openings in the hot area of data analytics that have gone unfilled for six months or more. A multinational CEO earlier MORE

British women need to be more "American"

Today, International Women's Day, brings news that progress in the boardroom remains feeble: 10% of directors' seats worldwide are held by women, according to a new report. Meanwhile, as the U.K. contemplates quotas for corporate boards, a British businesswoman exhorts her countrywomen to assert themselves.-Pattie Sellers

By Domini Pettifar, joint managing director, dnx marketing

Do British businesswomen need more swagger? It is a question I raise, in all seriousness, as the MORE

PR powerhouse's throwdown: 50% women at the top

Public-relations executive Richard Edelman writes in his blog this week that he wants women to occupy half of the senior roles in his company by 2016.

"Our goal is simple—50% of those on Strategy Committee, Operating Committee, GCRM and practice leadership will be women by 2016," he writes. "They will have earned the positions; there will not be a quota."

Edelman, who is president and CEO of Edelman, the world's largest independent public-relations MORE

CEOs, global stars, and Presidential offspring

"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 also recognized a group of international rising stars who have been mentored by some of the MORE

Nancy Pelosi: Health care reform equals entrepreneurship

By Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor

House Speaker (and powerful woman) Nancy Pelosi told a group of media executives and editors that the recently passed health insurance reform bill will lead to new jobs by enabling would-be entrepreneurs to take professional risks such as starting their own companies.

"The entrepreneurial spirit of America is unleashed," she said, because the bill allows people to leave unsatisfying jobs they keep only for the medical MORE

Live from Aviara, it's Carol Bartz (part 2)

Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz is speaking with Fortune Managing Editor Andrew Serwer, and she's taking questions from the audience. Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit attendee and tech editor Stephanie N. Mehta is sitting in the front row, with dispatches from the Four Seasons Resort Aviara.

But first, she pooh-poohed talk of her salty language: "I don't think it's that interesting, personally."

Women on boards

As she was coming up in business, Bartz MORE

Live from Aviara, it's Carol Bartz (part 1)

Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz is speaking with Fortune Managing Editor Andrew Serwer. Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit attendee and tech editor Stephanie N. Mehta is sitting in the front row, with dispatches from the Four Seasons Resort Aviara.

Joking aside, MORE

Tech women at the Fortune MPWomen Summit

Sitting through the "Big Get-to-Know-You," a signature event at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, I'm struck by the number of women here who work for tech companies, or who are top tech executives as their corporations - or are top tech executives at tech companies (Vitria's Jomei Chang, Intel's (INTC) Diane Bryant just to name two). There are women here from IBM (IBM), Dell, (DELL), Symantec (SYMC), Apple (AAPL) MORE