Power Point: Go your own way

• Wachovia's Sutton moves to Morgan Stanley

  Amidst the news that Morgan Stanley (MS) will cut 10% of its institutional securities employees, you might have missed this: Cece Sutton, Wachovia's (WB) former head of retail and small business banking and No. 33 on Most Powerful Women list this year, is moving to Morgan to be president of its new retail bank.

  Pattie wrote about Sutton in September, just as Citigroup (C) was poised to acquire Wachovia--before Wells Fargo MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Nov 13, 2008 5:45 PM ET
  Posted in: banks, Cece Sutton, Citigroup, FORTUNE MPWomen, Goldman Sachs, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Morgan Stanley, Postcards, Power Shift, Wachovia, Wells Fargo

• Random bits of hope

  It's hard to be hopeful. Turmoil in the financial markets is spreading geographically and psychologically. The Dow closed down 508 points today. At last week's Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, we heard plenty about stress and sleep deprivation -- starting with Warren Buffett's comments on a clearly exhausted Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. Sallie Krawcheck, who is leaving her high-level post at Citigroup (C), and Barclays Capital (BCS) vice chairman Barbara Byrne MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Oct 7, 2008 7:22 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, banks, Barbara Byrne, Barclays, berkshire hathaway, CEOs, Cisco, Citi, Citigroup, consumer goods, eBay, Facebook, FDIC, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, Google, Hank Paulson, Indra Nooyi, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, markets, Mary Meeker, McCain, Meg Whitman, mobile device market, Morgan Stanley, Obama, Padmasree Warrior, PepsiCo, politics, Postcards, Power Shift, presidential race, Sallie Krawcheck, Sheila Bair, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, stock market, technology, telecom, Wachovia, Wall Street, Warren Buffett, Wells Fargo

• 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 ET
  Posted 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

• Gates, Buffett and Powerful Women

  What a wrapup this morning at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. I interviewed Melinda Gates -- with Warren Buffett watching from the front row. Buffett was flanked by his daughter, Susie, and his daughter-in-law, Jennifer, both of whom are powerful philanthropists in their own right.

  It was fascinating to have Melinda Gates talk about her heady missions -- find an AIDS vaccine, eradicate malaria, reform U.S. education, bring a Green Revolution to Africa MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Oct 3, 2008 5:25 PM ET
  Posted in: banks, Barbara Byrne, Barclays, berkshire hathaway, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CEOs, Citigroup, eBay, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, John McCain, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Lehman Brothers, management, Meg Whitman, Melinda Gates, Meredith Whitney, Most Powerful Women, Obama, Penny Pritzker, philanthropy, politics, Postcards, Power Shift, Sallie Krawcheck, Wachovia, Wall Street, Warren Buffett, WB, Wells Fargo, WFC

• 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

  Patricia Sellers - Sep 29, 2008 3:26 PM ET
  Posted in: C, Cece Sutton, CEO, Citigroup, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen, Pat Russo, Postcards, Sallie Krawcheck, Terri Dial, Wachovia

• Morgan's Mack fights the attacks

  It feels like an earthquake on Wall Street, and Morgan Stanley's (MS) CEO is trying to stay standing. On Monday a week ago, Mack told me, "I'm not thinking about selling the firm. I'm thinking about investing in the firm in a big way." Morgan shares have fallen 58% since, and they're down 18% just today.

  Wachovia (WB) CEO Bob Steel phoned Mack yesterday to talk about a possible merger, according MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Sep 18, 2008 3:04 PM ET
  Posted in: Bank of America, banks, Bob Steel, CEOs, China Investment Corp., Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Joh Mack, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Lehman Brothers, Lloyd Blankfein, management, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Postcards, Power Shift, Vikram Pandit, Wachovia, Wall Street

• Motorola's co-CEO gamble

  Last week on Postcards, I noted skepticism about the new co-CEO set-up at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia -- and talked about how rare power-sharing at the top of major companies tends to be. Motorola (MOT) joined the club Monday when Qualcomm's (QCOM) Sanjay Jha agreed to join as co-chief and head of the company's troubled mobile-devices division. As my Fortune colleague Jon Fortt notes in a story, Jha's appointment will pay MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Aug 5, 2008 3:38 PM ET
  Posted in: American Financial Group, CEOs, Co-CEOs, Golden West Financial, Greg Brown, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Motorola, Postcards, Power Shift, Sanjay Jha, Synnex, technology, Wachovia