Postcards

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg goes hunting for bison

Mark Zuckerberg has upped the ante in his dietary adventure. As we reported last May on Fortune.com, the Facebook CEO pledged that this year "the only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself." He started out by slaughtering a pig, goat and chicken. Now the Silicon Valley billionaire has expanded his menu. Zuckerberg has learned to hunt, according to people close to him. He got a hunting license MORE

HP's Whitman sets the record for female Fortune 500 CEOs

With Meg Whitman nabbing the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard--and the four women at the bottom of this list (below) new to the top job this year--America now has 15 female Fortune 500 CEOs.

Not a number to be proud of, but hey, it's a record and it is progress nonetheless.

Here are the women at the helm--including the rank of their companies on the Fortune 500:

11  Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)

39 Pat Woertz, MORE

For Whitman, HP is the next best thing to running California

Meg Whitman is the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). Not interim chief. This is Whitman's for-real next big gig.

And it is big indeed, given that the storied Silicon Valley company has lurched from chief to chief to chief ever since the board, in 1999, eased out Lew Platt and recruited Carly Fiorina from Lucent (ALU).

Fiorina was the first No. 1 on the Fortune Most Powerful Women list, at the top MORE

Intel's Sean Maloney: The man who couldn't speak

Sean Maloney was on his way to being the chipmaker's next CEO when a stroke crippled his body -- and took away his ability to talk. This is the story of how he returned to work (he's now head of Intel China) -- and found his voice again.

FORTUNE -- Sean Maloney grew up in gritty South East London, last in a line of six kids, and got kicked out of MORE

Carol Bartz exclusive: Yahoo "f---ed me over"

FORTUNE -- Here is what Carol Bartz thinks of the Yahoo (YHOO) board that fired her: "These people f---ed me over," she says, in her first interview since her dismissal from the CEO role late Tuesday.

Last evening, barely 24 hours after Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock called Bartz on her cell phone to tell her the news, she called from her Silicon Valley home ("There are reporters at the gate… a 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

Getting a grip on power: 10 tips for a successful career

Ever since Fortune, in 1998, started ranking the top women in business (yes, we were first), I've been asking the stars of the Most Powerful Women list how they reached the top and how they stay there. One month away from revealing our 2011 MPW rankings, now seems a good time to share some of their best career tips. Here is my Top 10:

1. Don't plan your career. Most of MORE

How McDonald's got CEO succession right

A look back at the way the restaurant chain handled the deaths of two CEOs and found the right man for the job.

I wrote this article in 2005, a few months after Jim Skinner became CEO of McDonald's (MCD). The piece didn't run in the magazine because of space constraints, but this tale, presented here as it was written six years ago, remains as relevant as ever. The story appears MORE

The women on Fortune's Executive Dream Team

The 2011 Fortune Most Powerful Women list will be announced on September 29. Meantime, a few stars on the 2010 MPW list are on Fortune's Executive Dream Team--a fantasy all-star lineup of managers, selected by Fortune editors with assists from recruiters and other business know-it-alls.

I use the term know-it-all with endearment because the selections, revealed today, are good. The non-executive chair of choice: Anne Mulcahy, the former CEO of Xerox MORE

Xerox CEO's career advice: Listen to your mom

When Ursula Burns went to Washington and met with President Obama last Friday, at least two people in the room personified her notion of what leads to great success: "The biggest differentiator is not how you are born," says the Chairman and CEO of Xerox (XRX). "It's how you're influenced throughout your life."

Barack Obama had a remarkable single mother to influence him. As did Burns, who grew up on New MORE