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50 Most Powerful Women in Business

Gr8List — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:58:46 +0000

Fortune Magazine’s 2009 list of America’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business highlights the women who have a “secret weapon” in the business world. Fortune ranks the women not on their salaries, but by their past successes and ability to effect change in their companies. Read the full article…

1. Indra Nooyi - PepsiCo
2. Irene Rosenfeld - Kraft Foods
3. Pat Woertz - Archer Daniels Midland
4. Angela Braly - Wellpoint
5. Andrea Jung - Avon Products
6. Oprah Winfrey - Harpo
7. Ellen Kullman - Dupont
8. Carol Bartz - Yahoo
9. Ursula Burns - Xerox
10. Brenda Barnes - Sara Lee
11. Ginni Rometty - IBM
12. Safra Catz - Oracle
13. Ann Livermore - Hewlett-Packard
14. Sheri McCoy - Johnson & Johnson
15. Melanie Healey - Procter & Gamble
16. Anne Sweeney - Walt Disney
17. Heidi Miller - J.P. Morgan Chase
18. Carol Meyrowitz - TJX
19. Colleen Goggins - Johnson & Johnson
20. Judy McGrath - Viacom
21. Ann Moore - Time Warner
22. Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook
23. Carrie Cox - Schering-Plough
24. Susan Chambers - Wal-Mart
25. Barbara Desoer - Bank of America
26. Susan Ivey - Reynolds American
27. Charlene Begley - General Electric
28. Abigail Johnson - Fidelity
29. Liz Smith - Avon Products
30. Sallie Krawcheck - Bank Of America
31. Christina Gold - Western Union
32. Jan Fields - McDonald’s
33. Sue Wagner - BlackRock
34. Pam Nicholson - Enterprise
35. Joanne Maguire - Lockheed Martin
36. Claire Babrowski - Toys “R” Us
37. Deirdre Connelly - GlaxoSmithKline
38. Gail Boudreaux - UnitedHealth
39. Meredith Whitney - Meredith Whitney Advisory Group
40. Lorrie Norrington - eBay
41. Kathleen Murphy - Fidelity
42. Cathie Lesjak - Hewlett-Packard
43. Linda Hudson - BAE Systems
44. Marissa Mayer - Google
45. Lynn Elsenhans - Sunoco
46. Cathie Black - Hearst Magazines
47. Bonnie Hammer - General Electric
48. Lauren Zalaznick - General Electric
49. Amy Pascal - Sony Pictures Entertainment
50. Maggie Wilderotter - Frontier Communications

Forbes Richest People In America

Gr8List — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:52:18 +0000

Forbes publishes an annual list of the 400 richest Americans. The Forbes 400 is a snapshot of wealth on Sept. 10, 2009. The minimum net worth for inclusion in this year’s rankings was USD 1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year. See the full list of 400. Or create your own list.

1. William Gates III
2. Warren Buffett
3. Lawrence Ellison
4. Christy Walton & family
5. Jim C. Walton
6. Alice Walton
7. S. Robson Walton
8. Michael Bloomberg
9. Charles Koch
10. David Koch

The World’s Most Powerful People

Gr8List — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:31:39 +0000

There are 67 slots on Forbes’ first ranking of the World’s Most Powerful People –one for every 100 million people on the planet. Barack Obama tops the list, thanks to his control of the world’s largest economy, military, and nuclear arsenal. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have a combined net worth of $30 billion, and come in fifth. WalMart CEO Michael Duke runs the world’s largest retailer, with $401 billion in annual sales and 2 million employees — he comes in at number eight. And iconoclastic Apple CEO Steve Jobs ranks #57. View the full article…