— -- A new record has been set for female leadership: More women are slated to take the reins of Fortune 500 companies than ever before. On Tuesday, IBM tapped Virginia "Ginni" Rometty to succeed ...

In today’s edition: Kamala’s new book, the tariff deluge, and a record for the Global 500. – Record-setting. Fortune‘s Global 500, a ranking of the world’s largest companies, was published earlier ...

Jun 30, 2025, 7:54am EDT Updated: Jul 4, 2025, 8:49am EDT TIAA Thasunda Brown Duckett, CEO of TIAA, is one of two Black women among the 55 female CEOs on Fortune's top 500 list. For the first time in ...

Shareholder activists are taking aim at more companies — and a disproportionate number of them are led by women, a new report ...

CVS Health and its CEO, Karen Lynch, made Fortune 500 history by becoming the highest-ranked company to be helmed by a female CEO, according to a June 2 news release. CVS Health ranks No. 4 on the ...

Michele Buck is stepping down as the CEO of Hershey after eight years. – Sweet and sour. The Fortune 500 will soon be down one female CEO after Hershey’s announced yesterday that longtime chief ...

– Another one. Something’s in the air in recent weeks—female CEOs are leaving their jobs left and right. The latest major CEO to do so, after Hershey’s Michele Buck and X’s Linda Yaccarino, is Debra ...

With the resignation of PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, there will be only 23 female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, down from 32 in 2017, according to MarketWatch. Though high-profile female executives such ...

In May 2021, Thasunda Brown Duckett became the third Black woman ever to serve as CEO of a Fortune 500 company when she was tapped to lead financial services giant TIAA. Rosalind Brewer became the ...