Who's up, down and off the Most Powerful Women list

• Career Rx: Raise the roof and reinvent

  by Patricia Sellers

  Delivering a talk on Women and Power in Princeton on Thursday night, I tossed out a term that the crowd really liked: Raise the roof!

  As I told the 400 people gathered at the YWCA "Tribute to Women" dinner, the "glass ceiling" concept is out of date--and let's rethink how far corporate women have come.

  Not that bias against female managers has gone away--far from it, as I've written right MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Mar 7, 2011 7:34 AM ET
  Posted in: ADM, CEOs, consumer goods, FORTUNE MPWomen, Indra Nooyi, Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft, Mattel, Most Powerful Women, Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, MPWomen Entrepreneurs, Pat Woertz, PepsiCo, Postcards, Power Point, SHEEX

• Women CEOs top the Dow's gains

  by Patricia Sellers

  Here we are in 2011, and how odd is it that only a dozen Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs?

  This despite plenty of evidence that placing women in key positions pays off for investors.

  Maybe it's coincidental -- at least it's worth noting -- that two of the Dow 30 companies that delivered the best stock-market gains in 2010 are run by women.

  One is Dupont (DD), whose CEO, Ellen MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Jan 4, 2011 11:07 AM ET
  Posted in: caterpillar, CEOs, consumer goods, DuPont, Ellen Kullman, FORTUNE MPWomen, Indra Nooyi, Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft, Most Powerful Women, PepsiCo, Postcards, stock market

• New jobs for Powerful Women

  Lots of Most Powerful Women—the stars of Fortune's annual list--are moving up and making news. You know about Kraft Foods (KFT) CEO Irene Rosenfeld snagging Cadbury (CBY), the British candy giant, last week after a messy, multi-month battle. With her heftiest shareholder, Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) CEO Warren Buffett, skeptical about the deal, Rosenfeld has plenty to prove. But assuming it goes through, the acquisition will make Kraft larger than MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Jan 25, 2010 3:52 PM ET
  Posted in: Abby Johnson, CEOs, Fidelity, FORTUNE MPWomen, irene rosen, Jan Fields, Kraft, McDonald's, Postcards

• Buffett and Kraft: Three truths

  Rarely does a rebuff from Warren Buffett do so much good. Kraft Foods (KFT) stock rose 4.9% yesterday after the Oracle of Omaha, whose Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) is Kraft's largest shareholder, voted against an issuance of  370 million shares to help finance a Cadbury (CBY) acquisition. Cadbury fell, on the logic that Buffett, by tightening the leash on Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld, is preventing her from sweetening the price for MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Jan 6, 2010 3:52 PM ET
  Posted in: berkshire hathaway, CEOs, consumer goods, FORTUNE MPWomen, investing, Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft, Postcards, Warren Buffett

• Power Point: Grab mindshare while you can

  "You're seeing less of Ford and G.M. and more of Oscar Mayer and Kellogg."

  -- George Belch, chairman of the marketing department at San Diego State University, in the New York Times. While financial services companies like Citigroup (C) and automakers like Ford (F) and General Motors (GM) are cutting ad budgets, companies like Kellogg (K) and Kraft (KFT), maker of Oscar Mayer products, are stepping into the advertising MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Oct 7, 2009 6:04 PM ET
  Posted in: advertising, Brands, kellogg, Kraft, Postcards, Power Point

• Power Point: Worry about your people

  "At the end of a day the performance of a company like Kraft has everything to do with the quality of the people that we have in the key roles and so I spend most of my time worrying about whether that's the case, making sure...we have the right people in the right places, that they have the resources that they need to get the job done."

  -- Kraft (KFT) CEO MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - May 5, 2009 6:57 PM ET
  Posted in: ADM, Andrea Jung, Anne Sweeney, archer daniels midland, Avon, AVP, CEOs, consumer goods, dis, Disney, earnings, entertainment, FORTUNE MPWomen, Irene Rosenfeld, KFT, Kraft, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, mpw, MPWomen, Pat Woertz, Postcards, Power Point

• Pepsi's former boss lands a new gig

  by Patricia Sellers

  Dawn Hudson spent more than a decade chasing stretch goals at PepsiCo (PEP). She headed sales and marketing at Frito-Lay, the consumer giant's snack unit. She led marketing at Pepsi-Cola North America and ascended to CEO of that $5.5 billion business.

  That job turned out to be Hudson's ceiling inside PepsiCo, where chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi has put her own stamp on the company. Hudson (who ranked as MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Mar 26, 2009 1:39 PM ET
  Posted in: boards, Brands, CEOs, Citigroup, consumer goods, Dawn Hudson, eBay, Erin Callan, FORTUNE MPWomen, headhunters, Indra Nooyi, Kraft, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Meg Whitman, Morgan Stanley, P&G, PepsiCo, Personal Power, Postcards, Power Shift, private equity, Procter & Gamble, Sallie Krawcheck, sports, Susan Arnold, Wall Street, Zoe Cruz

• Guidance, good riddance!

  Guidance--the revenue and profit forecasts that companies divvy out to Wall Street analysts--is dying a slow death. Hooray for that!

  As a slew of big names--Wal-Mart (WMT), Costco (COST), Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO), among them--announced in the past two weeks that they would suspend or limit guidance because of economic uncertainty, analysts who follow these companies have reacted skeptically. Not giving 2009 guidance "hardly instills confidence in the business," Sanford MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Feb 6, 2009 3:25 PM ET
  Posted in: Bob Eckert, CEOs, consumer goods, Costco, earnings, GE, General Electric, guidance, investing, Jeff Immelt, Jim Kilts, Kraft, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Mattel, Microsoft, Novartis, Postcards, private equity, retail, Silicon Valley, stock market, technology, Wal-Mart, Wall Street, Yahoo

• Most Powerful Women: The list about the list!

  We've spent the last three months slicing and dicing the accomplishments and career histories of the most powerful women in business -- far too many facts and figures to fit into our Most Powerful Women package in the magazine. Here are 10 intriguing facts that we couldn't find space for in print:

  Youngest woman to ever appear on the list: Marissa Mayer, VP of Search and User Experience at Google (GOOG). MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 30, 2008 12:11 PM ET
  Posted in: Andrea Jung, Anne Mulcahy, Avon, AVP, Brenda Barnes, Carol Meyrowitz, CEO, CEOs, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, CS, DD, Diane Greene, DuPont, Ellen Kullman, Erin Callan, Fortune Most Powerful Women list, FORTUNE MPWomen, Google, Harpo, Heidi Miller, Indra Nooyi, Irene Rosenfeld, JPM, JPMorgan Chase, Katie Benner, KFT, Kraft, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, LEH, Lehman Brothers, Marissa Mayer, Meredith Whitney, Morgan Stanley, mp, MPWomen, MPWomen list, MS, Oppenheimer, Oprah, Oracle, PEP, Pepsi, PepsiCo, Postcards, Proct, Safra Catz, Sallie Krawcheck, Sara Lee, SLE, Susan Arnold, Susan Chambers, TJX, Ursula Burns, VMW, VMWare, Wal-Mart, Xerox, Zoe Cruz