Postcards
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Why CEOs should serve on boards: Yahoo's Bartz
"You need to build your career not as a ladder, but as a pyramid," Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz said in the New York Times yesterday. I wholeheartedly agree: In today's ever more complex world, you need to build a broad experience base--with peripheral vision and a willingness to make lateral moves. If you've been reading Postcards, you know that my favorite image is a jungle gym. That's kind of MORE
Patricia Sellers - Oct 19, 2009 11:54 AM ET -
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: Unedited
Ever since she stormed into Yahoo (YHOO) as its new CEO in January, Carol Bartz has been adamant that the company needs to simplify and define itself. What is Yahoo? "We're not a search company. We're not just a social media company. We're not just a content company. We're really the center of people's online lives," she told Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer in an on-stage interview at the MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 28, 2009 2:06 PM ET -
Live from Aviara, it's Carol Bartz (part 2)
Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz is speaking with Fortune Managing Editor Andrew Serwer, and she's taking questions from the audience. Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit attendee and tech editor Stephanie N. Mehta is sitting in the front row, with dispatches from the Four Seasons Resort Aviara.
But first, she pooh-poohed talk of her salty language: "I don't think it's that interesting, personally."
Women on boards
As she was coming up in business, Bartz MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Sep 15, 2009 4:06 PM ET -
Live from Aviara, it's Carol Bartz (part 1)
Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz is speaking with Fortune Managing Editor Andrew Serwer. Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit attendee and tech editor Stephanie N. Mehta is sitting in the front row, with dispatches from the Four Seasons Resort Aviara.
Bartz, No. 8 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list, is explaining why she took the Yahoo job: She flunked retirement. "Cocktail hour went from 6 (p.m.) to 4 (p.m.)," she joked.Joking aside, MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Sep 15, 2009 3:53 PM ET -
Most Powerful Women on CNBC's Squawk Box
I co-hosted CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning, when we unveiled Fortune's 2009 Most Powerful Women in Business list--topped by PepsicCo (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi for the fourth year in a row.
With us on the show: bank-industry analyst Meredith Whitney, No. 39 in Fortune's rankings. She stayed after co-hosting Squawk Box the hour before--and made news, by the way, predicting that home prices will continue to fall and unemployment will go MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 11, 2009 2:29 PM ET -
Yahoo CEO Bartz plays with pain
Carol Bartz can handle pain.
In January, she walked into the CEO job at Yahoo (YHOO), unfazed by the company's demoralized workforce, fractured management, and angry investors.
Seven month later, she's taking flak for Yahoo's new search partnership with Microsoft (MSFT).
And did you hear that when she announced that deal--to secure a fighting chance in the lucrative search business against mighty Google (GOOG)--Bartz was recovering from knee-replacement surgery?
Well, you don't know the MORE
Patricia Sellers - Aug 5, 2009 2:03 PM ETPosted in: Carol Bartz, CEOs, Google, media, Microsoft, Personal Power, Postcards, Silicon Valley, technology, Yahoo -
Power Point: YouTube wants it all
"While Google aims to profit from the videos on [YouTube] today, it ultimately is more interested in making sure that the company becomes the primary platform consumers use to generate, store, sort, and view all their video content and communications."
- Jessi Hempel, my Fortune collegaue, in an eye-opening piece, "Google (still) loves YouTube," about Google's (GOOG) YouTube in the new issue of Fortune. She notes that YouTube recently snuck up MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 31, 2009 6:10 PM ET -
Why Microsoft and Yahoo had to do a deal
by Patricia Sellers
"Every key word that every advertiser in every part of the world would put on Google, I want on our system."
That's what Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer declared last month when I interviewed him onstage at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. He also confessed one great regret since he took the helm from Bill Gates a decade ago: "We should have been earlier in search."
So, if you're at all MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 29, 2009 10:47 AM ETPosted in: bing, Carol Bartz, CEOs, Google, media, Microsoft, Postcards, Silicon Valley, Steve Ballmer, technology, Yahoo -
Microsoft CEO's big bets on the future
On Friday I told you about Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer's riff on Bing and Yahoo. I asked him: How much market share do you need to gain in search to not need to do a deal with Yahoo (YHOO)? Ballmer called my question "back-handed" and went on to give a really interesting answer. Check out the video or my Friday Postcard if you missed the Microsoft boss's take on MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 30, 2009 2:07 PM ET -
Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Open to Yahoo deal
by Patricia Sellers
As speculation ever swirls about Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) joining forces to give Google (GOOG) a better run for its money in search, one party in the on-and-off negotiations has been notably evasive this week. "If we ever have a deal with Microsoft, it will be announced publicly and until we do, we have nothing to say," declared Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz at the company's shareholders meeting MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 26, 2009 3:50 PM ETPosted in: bing, Brands, Carol Bartz, CEOs, Google, media, Microsoft, Postcards, Silicon Valley, Steve Ballmer, technology, Yahoo
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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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