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Behind the Buffett and Blankfein meeting
Where did America's richest man and one of Wall Street's most powerful CEOs meet face to face for the first time after their $5 billion deal? The Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, a three-day, invitation-only gathering of the world's most prominent women leaders.
So who let the guys in? Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) and Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein were two of just three men invited this year; MORE
Patricia Sellers - Oct 16, 2008 3:16 PM ETPosted in: Andy Serwer, banks, berkshire hathaway, Carol Loomis, CEO, CEOs, consumer goods, Fortune Most Powerful Women list, FORTUNE MPWomen, Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, GE, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs/Fortune Global Women Leaders Award, GS, investing, Investor, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Lloyd Blankfein, Melanie Healey, Mentoring, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen Go Global, P&G, Postcards, Procter & Gamble, stock market, Wall Street, Warren Buffett -
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 -
Power Point: Exercise your innovation muscle
"Organic growth is more valuable because it comes from your core competencies. Organic growth exercises your innovation muscle. It is a muscle. If you use it, it gets stronger."
- A.G. Lafley, chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble (PG), which is due to report quarterly earnings tomorrow morning. By driving innovation in age-old brands like Tide and Crest and Olay, P&G has beaten rivals in organic volume growth and profits MORE
Patricia Sellers - Aug 4, 2008 4:40 PM ETPosted in: A.G. Lafley, CEOs, Crest, Gillette, growth, innovation, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Olay, P&G, Postcards, Power Point, Procter & Gamble, Tide
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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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