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Powerful voices at MIT conference

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 15, 2012

“Passion is a gender-neutralizing force. Do things that you’re not ready to do,’’ advised Marissa Mayer , Google’s VP (and the company’s first female engineer) told the crowd at the sold-out MIT Sloan Women in Management Conference. Mayer, who ranks No. 38 on Forbes’s list of Most Powerful Woman in Business, was joined by Liz Claman , host of the Fox Business Network’s “Countdown to the Closing Bell,’’ CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield. . ..

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