Postcards
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One possible reason why Carly Fiorina's campaign website disappoints
Former HP (HPQ) CEO Carly Fiorina is taking flak for her website for her campaign for the California GOP senator slot in next year's election. But Fiorina has good reason to be a bit scattered: She's battling cancer (after discovering a lump in her breast last winter, two weeks after a mammogram showed she was clean). Read Time National Political Correspondent Karen Tumulty's take here. (We also wrote about Fiorina's MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 25, 2009 12:32 PM ET -
Carly Fiorina, Elizabeth Edwards speak up for Stand Up To Cancer
Participants at last week's Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit were joined by two special guests via satellite: Former Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Carly Fiorina and Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Presidential candidate John Edwards. The women were unable to attend the Summit in-person due to ongoing treatment for cancer, but they were eager to show their support for Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), an initiative backed by the entertainment community to MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 24, 2009 3:26 PM ET -
Global mentoring program kicks off in DC
I'm on the run in Washington, following meetings at the White House yesterday and a spectacular "Most Powerful Women Evening With..." dinner that Fortune hosted on Monday night in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department. We had eight U.S. Senators with us--including our speakers, Senators Barbara Boxer of California and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas--and scores of women leaders, a touch of royalty (HM Queen Noor, who is MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Apr 29, 2009 3:25 PM ETPosted in: Andrea Jung, Ann Moore, Anne Mulcahy, Avon, Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina, CEOs, Dina Powell, eBay, FORTUNE MPWomen, FORTUNE-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Ment, Hewlett-Packard, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, liz smith, Meg Whitman, Mentoring, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen Go Global, philanthropy, politics, Postcards, Queen Noor, sports illustrated, U.S. State Department, Ursula Burns, Washington, Washington D.C., Xerox -
Behind Fortune's Most Powerful Women
What makes a Fortune Most Powerful Woman?
This is a question that we get constantly, since rising-star business women (or their PR people!) wrangle to get a spot on Fortune's annual Power 50 list. And many a male CEO takes it as a badge of honor to have one or more of his direct reports in the MPWomen rankings. In just 11 years, Fortune's MPWomen list, which we release in the MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 23, 2009 12:44 PM ET -
Carly Fiorina has breast cancer
Carly Fiorina topped Fortune's Most Powerful Women list for seven years, from its launch in 1998 (when she was heading the biggest division at Lucent Technologies) until 2004, shortly before she was fired from the CEO position at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). The news broke today that Fiorina, 54, was diagnosed with breast cancer on February 20 and underwent surgery yesterday at Stanford Hospital.
The buzz around Washington and California lately is that MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 3, 2009 3:55 PM ET -
Votes for Meg Whitman and Barack Obama
Tonight, all eyes are on Obama and McCain, in their final Presidential debate. If McCain continues to lose in the polls, it's all the more likely that one of his key advisors -- and one of Fortune's former No. 1 Most Powerful Women -- will set her sights on another race: for California Governor. Former eBay (EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman, who is co-chair of the McCain Presidential campaign, hasn't decided MORE
Patricia Sellers - Oct 15, 2008 1:24 PM ET -
Meg and Carly, McCain's other key women
Keeping it brief today. Jessica and I are heading to the U.S. Open. Ilana Kloss, the CEO of World TeamTennis, invited us. We're hoping Billie Jean King, who co-founded and helps run WTT, is with us too. Btw, check out BJK's Guest Post -- and a piece I wrote about her odd connections to some of Fortune's Most Powerful Women.
Speaking of MPWomen, did you see the Republican convention last night? Sarah MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 4, 2008 12:35 PM ET -
Power Point: Move beyond yesterday's news
"We don't want to be on the History Channel. We want to be on the news channel."
--Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd in Fortune's 2006 profile by Adam Lashinsky, when asked whether he would have done the Compaq deal orchestrated by his predecessor, Carly Fiorina. Hurd replaced Fiorina, who was fired in February 2005, and moved quickly to improve execution and revive morale. HP reported earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Aug 19, 2008 6:09 PM ET -
Power Point: Women rise to the top
"Anytime you have a fiercely competitive, change-oriented growth business where results count and merit matters, women will rise to the top."
- Carly Fiorina said this 10 years ago this week, when I interviewed her for the very first Fortune Most Powerful Women in Businesss issue. Then a senior exec at Lucent, Fiorina was virtually unknown outside the telecom industry. In fact, she had had only one profile written about her, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Aug 1, 2008 12:49 PM ETPosted in: Carly Fiorina, CEOs, Compaq, diversity, FORTUNE MPWomen, gender, Heidi Miller, Hewlett-Packard, John McCain, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, list, Lucent, management, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen, OPrah Winfrey, Postcards, Power Point, Power Shift, Shelly Lazarus, Sherry Lansing, Tough Choices -
How to be a Fortune Most Powerful Woman: Step 1
We constantly field queries from PR specialists, HR bosses, CEOs, and even wannabe Most Powerful Women, who ask: How does one make Fortune's annual MPWomen list? Throughout this week, I'll give you the lowdown about how we select women leaders for the list, now 10 years old. First of all, I should tell you that the Fortune MPWomen lists -- ranking 50 women in the U.S. and 50 women who MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 14, 2008 11:56 AM ETPosted in: Angela Braly, Anne Mulcahy, Carly Fiorina, CEOs, FORTUNE MPWomen, Indra Nooyi, Jill Barad, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Mattel, MPWomen, Oprah, PepsiCo, Postcards, Wellpoint
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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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Every year Fortune and the U.S. State Department sponsor the Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, which brings rising-star women from developing countries to the U.S. to work closely with participants of the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit - among them CEOs Andrea Jung of Avon, Ann Moore of Time Inc., and Ursula Burns of Xerox.
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