Update: Fortune 500 Women CEOs hits a record 20

• Remembering Pattie Dunn: How she lived with cancer

  Even as Pattie Dunn died at age 58 after a long battle with cancer, she lived a full life. Her life started as an urban fairy tale: When I met her for the first time in 1999, Dunn told me about growing up as the daughter of a Las Vegas impresario and a showgirl, starting her career as a secretary at Wells Fargo (WFC), and rising through the banking world MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Dec 6, 2011 3:31 PM ET
  Posted in: cancer, Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard, Pattie Dunn

• Meg Whitman on easing HP's "post-traumatic stress"

  Meg Whitman's first report card as CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) comes this afternoon when the company announces fourth-quarter earnings.

  In the 60 days since she took the job, Whitman has settled on a strategy (keep HP in the PC business), worked to raise employee morale (terrible after three CEO ousters), and lifted the stock (up 12% since her appointment). But the former eBay (EBAY) chief, who lost her race for governor MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Nov 21, 2011 2:09 PM ET
  Posted in: CEOs, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, Hewlett-Packard, Meg Whitman, Most Powerful Women, Postcards, Silicon Valley, technology

• New IBM CEO means two top tech chiefs are women

  Ginni Rometty is the next CEO of IBM, the company announced this afternoon.

  With that news comes a stunning stat: America's two largest tech companies will be headed by women.

  Meg Whitman, who built eBay (EBAY), became CEO of Hewlett-Packard last month.

  H-P (HPQ) is No. 11 on the Fortune 500. IBM (IBM) is No. 18.

  Both women spoke at the recent Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. Rometty's main message (and one that Whitman MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Oct 25, 2011 5:41 PM ET
  Posted in: CEOs, Ginni Rometty, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Meg Whitman, Most Powerful Women, Postcards, technology

• 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

  Patricia Sellers - Sep 23, 2011 2:00 PM ET
  Posted in: CEOs, Fortune 500, Fortune Most Powerful Women, Fortune Most Powerful Women list, FORTUNE MPWomen, Hewlett-Packard, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Meg Whitman, Most Powerful Women, Postcards, Power Shift

• 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

  Patricia Sellers - Sep 22, 2011 5:05 PM ET
  Posted in: boards, Carly Fiorina, CEOs, eBay, FORTUNE MPWomen, Hewlett-Packard, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Mark Hurd, Meg Whitman, Most Powerful Women, Postcards, Power Shift, Silicon Valley, technology

• HP's trifecta of female directors

  Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) announcement that it is adding three women to its board of directors is a milestone -- apparently the first instance of a company naming three women in one day.

  The female trifecta includes former eBay (EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman, former Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) CEO Pat Russo and current chief of AXA Private Equity Dominique Senequier -- all of whom have been on Fortune's annual list of Most Powerful Women in MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Jan 21, 2011 4:28 PM ET
  Posted in: CEOs, FORTUNE MPWomen, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Leo Apotheker, Mark Hurd, Most Powerful Women, Postcards, Silicon Valley

• Meeting Governor Arnold...and Meg and Carly's political chances

  by Patricia Sellers

  Sometimes Los Angeles behaves like a small town.

  This past Sunday, I ran into Maria Shriver at Room at the Beach, a Malibu store owned by my friend Elizabeth Lamont.

  The next morning, coincidentally, I had breakfast with a close friend/colleague of Shriver. And no sooner did I sit down at Le Pain Quotidien than the Governator walked in. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was on his way to Sacramento, presumably to MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Aug 25, 2010 12:54 PM ET
  Posted in: Carly Fiorina, eBay, FORTUNE MPWomen, Hewlett-Packard, Meg Whitman, politics, Postcards, Power Shift, Silicon Valley

• The PR power behind HP's board of directors

  While perplexities proliferate around Hewlett-Packard's ouster of CEO Mark Hurd, here is one answerable question in the corporate soap opera: What is APCO Worldwide?

  It was PR strategists at APCO who helped the HP board decide how to handle sexual harassment charges against Hurd. Kent Jarrell, an APCO senior vice president who heads the firm's litigation communication practice, presented a mock newspaper article that illustrated the potential damage to HP's reputation MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Aug 17, 2010 12:42 PM ET
  Posted in: CEOs, Hewlett-Packard, Postcards, Silicon Valley

• Can Fiorina and Whitman save California?

  Carly Fiorina declared her candidacy for the U.S. Senate--in a bid to replace another well-known woman, incumbent California Democrat Barbara Boxer.

  Fiorina, who was No. 1 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list for six years when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), will be pounding the campaign trail simultaneously with another ex-No. 1 on our list: Meg Whitman. The former eBay (EBAY) CEO, who topped Fortune's power list in 2004 and MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Nov 5, 2009 12:21 PM ET
  Posted in: Carly Fiorina, CEOs, eBay, FORTUNE MPWomen, Hewlett-Packard, Meg Whitman, Personal Power, politics, Postcards, Silicon Valley, technology