The just released Fortune Most Powerful Women list includes more Fortune 500 CEOs than ever. And next week's Most Powerful Women Summit includes plenty of them--Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo (PEP), Ellen Kullman of DuPont (DD), Pat Woertz of ADM (ADM), Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup (CPB)...plus one guy who manages to secure an invitation to the Summit every year. Warren Buffett. Fortune senior editor at large Carol Loomis will interview the Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) chief Tuesday morning.
You can watch Buffett and Loomis, as well as the entire main-stage program, for free by registering for the Virtual Summit, here.
This year's Summit participants include a record 30 of the 50 women on the MPW list. I'll be interviewing Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (No. 12 in this year's rankings), media-empire builder Chelsea Handler (one of Fortune's featured women entrepreneurs), and Barbara Bush, the former President's daughter who now runs a world-changing startup called Global Health Corps.
We'll have provocative panels and one-on-ones with IBM's (IBM) Ginni Rometty, Gilt Groupe's Susan Lyne, financial services analyst Meredith Whitney, Gloria Steinem, actress Glenn Close, and AOL's (AOL) Arianna Huffington. Handler will interview Huffington. The two women have never met, but their phone conversation last Saturday suggests that this will be a must-watch session.
So tune in next Tuesday and Wednesday--and if you want a peek at what this hot-ticket event, now in its 13th year, is about, watch this:
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by Patricia Sellers
The takeaway was pretty discouraging this week when Fortune and recruiting giant Heidrick & Struggles (HSII) co-hosted a discussion on women and boards.
The participants -- members of the Fortune Most Powerful Women community convening in Washington, D.C. -- came up with lots of reasons that "corporate boards get a D for diversity" (the title of my Postcard on Monday). Such as: the club-like culture of boards, the white MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 5, 2011 10:16 AM ET
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As I told the 400 people gathered at the YWCA "Tribute to Women" dinner, the "glass ceiling" concept is out of date--and let's rethink how far corporate women have come.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
"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
When chaos and crisis are in the air, it's easy to shelve programs that are about building for the long-term future. That's why I'm particularly proud that Fortune and Goldman Sachs (GS) recently partnered to create the Goldman Sachs-Fortune Global Women Leaders Award.
This annual award is a product of the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, which brings rising-star women from developing countries to the U.S. every May MORE
Patricia Sellers - Nov 10, 2008 12:35 PM ET
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 ET
"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
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 12, 2008 5:17 PM ET
"Nothing is created without something being destroyed."
- ADM (ADM) chairman and CEO Pat Woertz, who has had to make wrenching personnel and capital allocation decisions in her current job and her previous one too--as head of Chevron's (CHX) downstream operations. ADM, which processes food and ethanol, reported disappointing earnings this morning. Woertz, No. 6 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women in Business list, is struggling to lift ADM stock, which at MORE
Patricia Sellers - Aug 5, 2008 2:13 PM ET
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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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