Postcards
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Warren Buffett, Meredith Whitney, Carol(s) Brady and Burnett
Featuring Warren Buffett and beyond, there's a wealth, so to speak, of video from last week's Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. Especially now, with the markets in turmoil, these video segments are worth checking out. There's Buffett on the $700 billion bailout. Buffett on why he expects to make a hefty profit on his recent $3 billion investment in General Electric (GE), and Buffett on gender equality (wise and amusing MORE
Patricia Sellers - Oct 6, 2008 2:11 PM ETPosted in: Arianna Huffington, Bank of America, banks, berkshire hathaway, Brady Bunch, bridge, Carol Burnett, CEOs, Citigroup, consumer goods, Florence Henderson, FORTUNE MPWomen, General Electric, Huffington Post, ING, Jan Brady, JPMorgan Chase, Kathy Murphy, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Marcia Brady, Martha Stewart, media, Melanie Healey, Most Powerful Women Summit. Most Powerful Women, Nintendo, Postcards, Power Point, Procter & Gamble, San Diego, Wachovia, Wall Street, Waren Buffett, Wells Fargo, Wii -
Buffett and more at Fortune's MPWomen Summit
Greetings from Southern California! We're here for Fortune's 10th annual Most Powerful Women Summit which, even with all that turmoil across the global markets, is drawing the heaviest hitters in business, starting with Warren Buffett and Lloyd Blankfein.
The world's greatest investor and the Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO will be at our opening dinner tonight. It's a crazy coincidence since we invited these two men (our first time inviting men) months ago. Then, last week, the MORE
Patricia Sellers - Oct 1, 2008 1:57 PM ETPosted in: ADM, Andy Serwer, Ann Moore, banks, Carol Loomis, CEO, CEOs, debate, Fortune Most Powerful Women list, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs/Fortune Global Women Leaders Award, Indra Nooyi, Joe Biden, Lloyd Blankfein, Martha Stewart, Meg Whitman, Melinda Gates, Most Powerful Women, Most Powerful Women Summit, MPWomen, MPWomen Go Global, MPWomen list, MPWomen Summit, P&G, Pat Woertz, PepsiCo, philanthropy, Postcards, Procter & Gamble, Sarah Palin, Silicon Valley, Susan Arnold, Ursula Burns, Wall Street, Warren Buffett, Wii, Xerox -
Susan Lyne lands at Gilt
Since Susan Lyne made a big name for herself at the top of ABC Entertainment and then Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO), her move to the CEO position at tiny Gilt Groupe seems to be a head scratcher. Have you heard of this year-old startup? I hadn't. My younger, fashionable colleagues say it's a big thing: an online marketplace of excess luxury goods that is already shaking up the fashion MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 16, 2008 2:43 PM ET -
Too many cooks in Martha's kitchen?
Even as Martha Stewart's new co-CEOs, Wenda Millard and Robin Marino, announced solid quarterly profits this morning, they have a raft of challenges ahead--a cloudy ad outlook, a sputtering merchandising deal with Kmart, and the inevitable ego-balancing that is part and parcel of any partnership at the top. Co-CEO set-ups such as this one at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) are so unusual that, among Fortune 500 companies over the past MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 29, 2008 12:24 PM ET -
How to be a Fortune Most Powerful Woman: Step 4
Here's the fourth and final criterion for making the Fortune Most Powerful Women List: social and cultural influence. It's certainly more difficult to measure than revenues or profits, the health of a business, or even the arc of a woman leader's career. But vast social and cultural influence is precisely why Oprah Winfrey ranks No. 8 on our list. Her company, Harpo, is privately held and nowhere near the size MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 17, 2008 12:03 PM ET -
Welcome to Postcards
Greetings from the pinnacle! As I launch this blog, Postcards, I'm perched on the 15th floor of the Time & Life Building in the center of Manhattan -- overlooking Rockefeller Center, to be precise. I have a sense, though, that I'm scanning the entire universe -- wanting to share with you the most fascinating, most fun, and most valuable ideas about super-achievers and other powerful people.
I have lots of ideas MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 10, 2008 8:20 PM ETPosted in: Andrea Jung, Arianna Huffington, CEOs, David Neeleman, Eddie Lampert, Fortune, FORTUNE MPWomen, Hank Paulson, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Martha Stewart, Melinda Gates, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen, MPWomen Go Global, Oprah, Pattie Sellers, Personal Power, philanthropy, Postcards, Power, Power Point, Ted Turner -
Lyne may land with Oprah
High-placed media-industry sources tell me that Susan Lyne has been in touch with Oprah and her folks about running OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. Lyne, who quit the CEO post at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) last week, won't comment. Nor will Oprah. But the cable startup—a joint venture of Oprah's Harpo Inc. and Discovery Communications that's due to launch in September 2009— would be a natural fit for Lyne, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 18, 2008 2:59 PM ETPosted in: Ann Moore, Bob Iger, CEOs, Desperate Housewives, Discovery Communications, Disney, FORTUNE MPWomen, Harpo, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, OPrah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Newtork, Personal Power, Postcards, Power Shift, Susan Lyne, Time Inc.
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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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