50 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN 2007

The Power 50

Business has its ups and downs, and so, naturally, do women in business. (Bye-bye, Martha!) But the story of this list is one of achievement: The credentials of these women, including the 13 newcomers, are the strongest yet.

By Katie Benner, Eugenia Levenson, and Rupali Arora
Sue Decker
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20. Sue Decker
President
Yahoo (YHOO)
2006 rank:  Return
Age: 44

Yahoo is smaller than Google, slower growing, and decidedly less fashionable. Google's stock has risen smartly in the past year; Yahoo's has fallen. But Decker's career is only going up. A stock analyst who joined Yahoo as CFO in 2000, she was promoted to president in June to lead a turnaround. Warren Buffett gave her his vote of confidence: He named her to the Berkshire Hathaway board this year.

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Anne Mulcahy
Meg Whitman
Angela Braly
Irene Rosenfeld
Pat Woertz
Susan Arnold
Oprah Winfrey
Andrea Jung
Brenda Barnes
Ursula Burns
Sallie Krawcheck
Ann Livermore
Christine Poon
Anne Sweeney
Zoe Cruz
Ginni Rometty
Judy McGrath
Ann Moore
Sue Decker
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
Diane Greene
Amy Brinkley
Susan Ivey
Ellen Kullman
Charlene Begley
Heidi Miller
Cece Sutton
Sheryl Sandberg
Abigail Johnson
Carol Meyrowitz
Carrie Cox
Linda Dillman
Shelly Lazarus
Mary Sammons
Lisa Weber
Claire Babrowski
Joanne Maguire
Colleen Goggins
Kathleen Murphy
Dawn Hudson
Liz Smith
Cathleen Black
Pam Nicholson
Melanie Healey
Amy Pascal
Deirdre Connelly
Jan Fields
Julia Stewart
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Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.