Sara Blakely: Building a Billion-Dollar Brand on Her Own Terms
Sara Blakely founded Spanx with $5,000 and no outside funding. How she bootstrapped a billion-dollar brand and became a self-made female billionaire.
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On women in finance.
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Indra Nooyi: How She Led PepsiCo Through a Decade of Transformation
Indra Nooyi served as PepsiCo CEO for 12 years, growing revenue 80% while pivoting the portfolio toward healthier products. A look at her strategic playbook.
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Carly Fiorina: First Woman to Lead a Fortune 20 Company
Carly Fiorina became CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 1999 — the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company. Her six-year tenure included the controversial Compaq merger …
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Mary Barra: Engineering a Turnaround at General Motors
Mary Barra became CEO of General Motors in 2014 — the first woman to lead a major global automaker. She inherited a company weeks away from a massive recall …
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Mary Callahan Erdoes: Running JPMorgan's $3 Trillion Asset Management Empire
Mary Callahan Erdoes is CEO of JPMorgan Asset Management, one of the largest asset managers in the world with over $3 trillion under management. She has run the …
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Abigail Johnson: Running the World's Largest Mutual Fund Company
Abigail Johnson is CEO of Fidelity Investments, one of the largest financial services companies in the world. She took the helm in 2014 and has steered the …
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Abby Joseph Cohen: Goldman Sachs' Bull Market Strategist
Abby Joseph Cohen spent 25 years as a senior investment strategist at Goldman Sachs, becoming one of the most followed market analysts on Wall Street. Her …
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Sheila Bair: The FDIC Chair Who Fought to Protect Depositors in 2008
Sheila Bair ran the FDIC during the 2008 financial crisis as a Republican appointee. She became one of the most outspoken regulators of the era — frequently at …
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Muriel Siebert: The Woman Who Bought a Seat on Wall Street
In 1967, Muriel Siebert became the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange — a title she held alone for a decade. Her career reshaped who could …
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Ida Tarbell: The Journalist Who Broke Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell's 19-part investigation into Standard Oil, published 1902–1904, resulted in the Supreme Court dissolving what was then the most powerful corporation …
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