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Time Inc.’s Fortune Reveals Annual List of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business

GM CEO Mary Barra Takes the No. 1 Spot; Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Remains in the Top 10; Taylor Swift Snags a Bonus Spot on the List at #51

Sep 10, 2015

New York, NY (September 10, 2015) – Today Fortune, published by Time Inc., releases its annual list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. “The process of assembling this annual list has drawn us to ever more compelling people involved in deals and dramas and ever higher stakes…. These insightful and provocative stories reveal how power, leadership, ambition, and yes, gender are playing out in the heart of business today,” writes Fortune’s Jennifer Reingold.

 

 See the full list here: http://fortune.com/mpw 

 

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THE TOP 10 OF FORTUNE’S 50 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN 2015 

 

 

1.Mary Barra, CEO, General Motors

 

 

2.Indra Nooyi, CEO and Chairman, PepsiCo

 

 

3.Ginni Rometty, CEO, Chairman and President, IBM

 

 

4.Marillyn Hewson, CEO, Chairman and President, Lockheed Martin

 

 

5.Ellen Kullman, CEO and Chairman, DuPont

 

 

6.Abigail Johnson, CEO and President, Fidelity Investments

 

 

7.Meg Whitman, CEO, Chairman, and President, Hewlett-Packard

 

 

8.Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook

 

 

9.Irene Rosenfeld, CEO and Chairman, Mondelez International

 

 

10.Phebe Novakovic, CEO and Chairman, General Dynamics

 

 

The Most Powerful Women in Business list is compiled by Fortune editors, who consider four criteria: the size and importance of the woman’s business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, the arc of the woman’s career and social and cultural influence.

 

 Video: How Fortune picks its Most Powerful Women: http://for.tn/1KaBUL1 

 

HIGHLIGHTS

 

— There are a record number of CEOs on this year’s list – 27 – who together control $1 trillion in revenues.

 

 

— Taylor Swift (No. 51) is the youngest person on the list at 25, followed by Marissa Mayer (No. 18), CEO and president of Yahoo, at 40.

 

 

— There are six Fortune 500 companies with two women on this year’s list: Google, Home Depot, IBM, Wal-Mart, JP Morgan and Reynolds American.

 

 

— There are 12 newcomers on the 2015 list, including Swift. 

 

 

— The first MPW list was in 1998, and Carly Fiorina took the #1 spot.

 

 

 About Fortune 

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