How Millennial Trailblazers Are Fixing The World Denise Restauri Contributor Power Redefined: Announcing The Forbes Women’s Summit Moira Forbes Forbes Staff I’ll be live-blogging today’s inaugural Forbes Woman Summit: Power Redefined. We’re at 582 Park Avenue with some of the most influential women in business, media, politics and philanthropy–Tory Burch to Janet Napolitano, Anne Sweeney [...]
[Continue reading...]Madonna Sells Painting Of Women For $7.2 Million, Proceeds Go To Girls’ Charity
May 9, 2013
Fernand Leger’s Trois Femmes a Table Rouge; photo credit: Sotheby’s New York. Material girl, Madonna, made a very “un-materialist” gesture… The pop star donated a Fernand Leger painting from her private collection that sold for $7.2 million last night, May 7, at Sotheby’s Impressionist Modern Art Evening sale in New York City. Madonna bought the [...]
[Continue reading...]Top Women in Venture Capital
May 8, 2013
This year, three women made the Midas List—Jenny Lee at GGV Capital, Mary Meeker at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and Theresia Gouw at Accel Partners. Lee first broke onto the List last year at #94, and she made a big jump this year to #36, largely driven by the recent IPO of Sinosun Technology, in [...]
[Continue reading...]Top Women Venture Capitalists
May 8, 2013
Adele Oliva Adele Oliva joined Quaker Partners in 2007 from Apax Partners where she co-led its U.S. healthcare group. She also invested in Ascent Healthcare Solutions, which was acquired by Stryker Corp. for $525 million in 2009. She invested in Prometheus Laboratories, which was acquired by Nestle Health Science in May 2011. She also seed [...]
[Continue reading...]Katie Couric: Women at Work, Social Media and Her Best Career Advice
May 6, 2013
Katie Couric I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Katie Couric, who is an award-winning journalist and TV personality, the founder of numerous cancer research and awareness organizations, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives. She is the former anchor and managing editor of [...]
[Continue reading...]What’s Keeping So Many Smart Women From Climbing the Ladder?
May 3, 2013
Women: Enough With The Apologies! Margie Warrell Contributor Why Getting Comfortable With Discomfort Is Crucial To Success Margie Warrell Contributor Self-Promotion Is Not Crucial (Unless You Want To Get Ahead!) Margie Warrell Contributor Sheryl Sandberg is Right. Women Must ‘Lean In’ to Risk Margie Warrell Contributor At face value, the numbers just don’t add up. [...]
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