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• Why Morgan Stanley's Meeker is moving to Silicon Valley

  by Patricia Sellers

  When Internet analyst Mary Meeker announced at Morgan Stanley's Monday morning meeting today that she's leaving to become a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, most people were surprised.

  But to those who know Meeker, the so-called Queen of the 'Net since the late '90s, her move from Wall Street to Silicon Valley is a long time coming.

  I mentioned this "rumor" (will Meeker leave Morgan Stanley to MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Nov 29, 2010 5:18 PM ET
  Posted in: Google, Juliet de Baubigny, Kleiner Perkins, Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley, Postcards, Silicon Valley, technology, Wall Street, Yahoo

• On power: Women in politics and men in big families

  by Patricia Sellers

  I'm back from "vacation." Since the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit (view sessions here) wrapped in early October, the "chronic networker" that I am (one of my Time Inc. bosses accused me of being this) has been racing around the U.S. -- LA, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Boston, Atlanta, Allentown PA, my hometown. I'm back on New York terra firma at last.

  While I was out, I worked on MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Nov 2, 2010 11:31 AM ET
  Posted in: Bank of America, banks, Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, Morgan Stanley, politics, Postcards, Wall Street

• John Mack and Hank Paulson cast their movie

  by Patricia Sellers

  John Mack interviewed Hank Paulson at New York University's Stern School last evening. The Morgan Stanley (MS) chairman, who recently turned over the CEO reins, told me that he wanted to push some emotional buttons in the former U.S. Treasury Secretary and onetime CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS).

  And he did. The two talked about the hairiest, scariest moments of the global financial crisis. Mack credited Paulson with keeping MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Mar 4, 2010 11:51 AM ET
  Posted in: CEOs, Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, John Mack, Morgan Stanley, Postcards, Wall Street, Washington

• Morgan Stanley's Mack speaks about survival

  My Fortune colleague Carol Loomis passed on this YouTube video of a talk that Morgan Stanley (MS) CEO John Mack delivered last week at Wharton. It's a remarkably candid play-by-play of living through the global economic meltdown.

  Mack talks about being pushed by Tim Geithner, then head of the New York Fed, to do a deal with JPMorgan Chase (JPM) or Citigroup (C) or another partner that might stabilize the teetering MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Oct 23, 2009 4:41 PM ET
  Posted in: banks, CEOs, finance, John Mack, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Morgan Stanley, Postcards, Wall Street

• Morgan Stanley's ex-president starts a hedge fund

  by Patricia Sellers

  Maybe it's a sign of recovery in the financial services industry: Wall Street's two most renowned women dropouts have settled on what to do next. Yesterday on Postcards, you read Sallie Krawcheck's bizarre tale of her bumpy road on the way to Bank of America (BAC). Today, news broke that former Morgan Stanley (MS) co-president Zoe Cruz is starting a hedge fund.

  Cruz, who spent her entire career at MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Oct 9, 2009 12:21 PM ET
  Posted in: banks, finance, FORTUNE MPWomen, John Mack, Morgan Stanley, Postcards, Sallie Krawcheck, Wall Street, Zoe Cruz

• Morgan Stanley's Mack chooses a successor

  Addendum: Morgan Stanley sources say that Wallid Chammah, widely viewed and ID'd below as a contender to be CEO of Morgan Stanley, took himself out of the race a year ago, after he and his family moved to London. James Gorman's rivals for the top job, in fact, were outsiders. Spencer Stuart recruiter Tom Neff gave the board a list of names known to include  usual suspects such as ex-Merrill MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Sep 10, 2009 5:26 PM ET
  Posted in: banks, CEOs, finance, John Mack, Morgan Stanley, Postcards, Wall Street

• CIT CEO Peek: Three strikes!

  by Patricia Sellers

  As CIT gets a lifeline to stave off bankruptcy--a $3 billion deal with bondholders is reportedly in the works--the CEO who got the company into trouble is hanging on. But Jeff Peek's reputation is in tatters.

  This is the third time in eight years that Peek has failed to grab the golden ring and redeem his reputation. First at Merrill Lynch (BAC), then at Credit Suisse Group (CSGKF), and MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Jul 20, 2009 4:36 PM ET
  Posted in: banks, CEOs, CIT, finance, Jeff Peek, John Mack, Morgan Stanley, Postcards, Wall Street

• Power Point: Be agile in uncertain times

  "Right now, nothing is more important than a nimble, agile leader, who is comfortable with ambiguity and figuring it out as they go along."

  --Avon (AVP) President Liz Smith, in a discussion led by Pattie Sellers at NYU today. The panel, which also included Cece Sutton, Morgan Stanley's (MS) new retail banking president, was hosted by Forte Foundation. (To view video of the dialogue, click here.)

  Smith and Sutton, both on Fortune's MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 26, 2009 6:54 PM ET
  Posted in: Avon, AVP, banks, Cece Sutton, education, Forte Foundation, FORTUNE MPWomen, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, liz smith, management, MBA, Morgan Stanley, MS, Postcards, Power Point

• More women fall off the tracks

  The ouster of Bank of America's (BAC) chief risk officer, Amy Brinkley, was inevitable, as I wrote in "Behind the shakeup at BofA" on Friday.

  And as I mentioned in that piece, two years ago, Fortune featured Brinkley and five other execs in "One Step Away," about rising-star Most Powerful Women on track to be CEOs of Fortune 500 companies someday. So what's happened to the other five?

  One woman made it MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Jun 8, 2009 12:31 PM ET
  Posted in: Amy Brinkley, Avon, Bank of America, banks, Carrie Cox, CEOs, DuPont, Ellen Kullman, finance, Fortune Most Powerful Women, FORTUNE MPWomen, Genentech, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, linda dillman, liz smith, Morgan Stanley, P&G, Personal Power, Postcards, Power Shift, Procter & Gamble, Sue Hellmann, Susan Arnold, Wal-Mart, Zoe Cruz