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MPWomen in New York: the evening in pictures
June 3, 2009: 6:07 PM ETFortune Most Powerful Women gathered for a blow-out celebration in May. We kicked off our 2009 MPWomen's Summit theme, Betting on the Future, with a panel discussion with Google's (GOOG) Marissa Mayer, Goldman Sachs' (GS) Dina Powell, and Meredith Whitney, the influential bank-industry analyst. Also part of the evening: 32 rising star women leaders from 23 developing countries -- participants in the 2009 Fortune-U.S. State Department Mentoring Partnership. For more on the gala, click here.
Scenes from the party...
Jocelyne Attal, former Avaya CMO, and Cecilia Attias, former First Lady of France
Meredith Whitney, bank industry Cassandra
WNBA chief Donna Orender, Susan Saint James, Solera Capital CEO Molly Ashby, and Danskin boss Carol Hochman
Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large
International Mentees with Gayle King (in orange) and daughter Kirby Bumpus (2nd from left)
Studio Museum of Harlem director Thelma Golden
The team behind the MPWomen Mentoring Program: Goldman Sachs managing director Dina Powell, Vital Voices CEO Alyse Nelson, and the State Department's Chris Miner
Gilt Groupe CEO Susan Lyne and Gayle King
Time Inc. Chairman & CEO Ann Moore
MPWomen Betting on the Future panelists Marissa Mayer of Google, Dina Powell of Goldman Sachs, and Meredith Whitney (with Pattie Sellers)
Marissa Mayer, Google's queen of search
Pattie and the Daily Beast's Tina Brown
CNN's Christiane Amanpour
MPWomen International Mentees and Christiane
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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
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Power Point: Send the "open for business" message
"The important thing that we're focused on is the "open for business" message. A lot is going on that's impacting confidence, but business is happening, and consumers need to realize that credit is still available."
--Barbara Desoer, Bank of America's (BAC) mortgage chief, from "The Colvin Interview" in the current issue of Fortune. Desoer, who is No. 27 on Fortune's 2008 Most Powerful Women in business list, oversees the biggest collection MORE
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Power Point: Combine can-do and must-do
"It's a can-do spirit with a must-do responsibility that together generate great results."
- PepsiCo (PEP) chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit earlier this month. Nooyi is No. 1 on Fortune's 2008 Most Powerful Women list. PepsiCo reports earnings Tuesday morning.
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Power Point: Opt for risk over inaction
"The price of inaction is much higher than the price of making a mistake."
-- Meg Whitman, who was CEO of eBay (EBAY) from 1998 until she retired this past March. Whitman said this at the 1999 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit while speaking on a panel about the future of the Internet with Morgan Stanley (MS) tech analyst Mary Meeker and Joy Covey, then CFO of Amazon.com (AMZN). The panel MORE
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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
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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
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New gigs for Most Powerful Women in banking
No sooner did we unveil Fortune's 2008 Most Powerful Women in Business rankings than the ground shifted beneath two women on the list. Terri Dial, No. 47, is CEO of the U.S. consumer bank at Citigroup (C). With Citi's deal to buy Wachovia, annnounced this morning, she will be in charge of the largest retail banking system in the U.S., with 4,300 branches and a 9.8% market share of deposits.
It's MORE
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Power Point: Don't rely on the power of the position
"I've always felt that if I ever had to use my power--the power that came with my position and title--in a more overt way, rather than just having it there in the background, then I would have failed somehow."
--Jami Miscik, global head of sovereign risk at Lehman Brothers (LEH), offered her take on power last evening at a Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Chicago. Miscik, whom Pattie Sellers profiled MORE
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Power Point: Be a servant and a hero
"Know the moments when you have to step up on stage and lead the troops and be a person that people look up to. And then be the one who is the ember to everyone else's flame. That's when you're an effective leader -- when you learn to balance both roles."
--Christine Day, CEO of lululemon athletica (LULU), at Fortune's Most Powerful Women dinner in San Francisco in July. Day recalled MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 11, 2008 2:53 PM ETPosted in: Christine Day, consumer goods, FORTUNE MPWomen, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, LULU, Luly, management, MPWomen, Postcards, Power Point, retail, Wall Street
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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The Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership brings rising-star women from countries around the world to the U.S. for three-week mentorships with participants of the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit - among them Ursula Burns of Xerox, Laura Lang of Time Inc., Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, and Tory Burch.
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