For our 4th annual #Just100, our partner Just Capital polled more than 110,000 people on the most critical aspects of corporate behavior. Just Captial then objectively graded America’s largest public companies on how they served 5 critical stakeholders
The result: the top publicly traded corporations turning the daunting challenges of 2020 into lasting, positive change #Just100
Dallas-based AT&T has landed in the #Just100 top 10 for the first time this year thanks to high marks for how the Texas telecom treats its customers, particularly those who need help during an emergency
More than 25 million American workers were furloughed or laid off this spring, but Synchrony Financial’s call-center customer-service workers were not among them. Instead, they got bonuses. “Making it happen wasn’t easy, but it was the right thing to do,” says CEO Margaret Keane
Ecolab, which returns to the #Just100 for the first time since 2018 at No. 22, logged $15 billion in revenue last year from selling water-treatment chemicals and cleaning supplies, including hand sanitizer, to companies including Microsoft and Colgate-Palmolive
CEO Ken Frazier is 1 of 4 Black chief executives leading America’s largest publicly traded companies, and he’s aware of the responsibility this confers. “If you’re complacent with the status quo, you’re complicit in the structural racism and inequality that the status quo hides."
Despite her musical success, she's made the bulk of her fortune from Fenty Beauty, the makeup brand she co-owns with luxury goods group LVMH #SelfMadeWomen
She became CEO of online dating group Bumble (formerly MagicLab) in November 2019, after private equity firm Blackstone bought out its former owner, Russian billionaire Andrey Andreev, in a deal that valued the business at $3 billion #SelfMadeWomen
#ForbesUnder30 alum Michael Tubbs was elected mayor of Stockton 4 years ago—and now he's up for reelection, with a bipartisan, market-based strategy
His mayoral victory was historic in several ways. Tubbs was Stockton’s first Black mayor, and, at just 26, he was the youngest major city mayor in America
Throughout this disruptive moment for the world, for business and for retail, Tory Burch and Pierre-Yves Roussel, her husband and the chief executive of her eponymous fashion company, let Forbes ride along on their eight-month navigation of this apocalypse
They’ve had to improvise, shutting stores, rerouting supplies and revamping e-commerce efforts, all in the hope that the business, which generated almost $1.5 billion in revenue in 2019, with a profit margin Forbes estimated at 11%, could survive
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It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now—and he couldn’t be happier
As a philanthropist, he pioneered the idea of Giving While Living—spending most of your fortune on big, hands-on charity bets instead of funding a foundation upon death
In a recent interview, the billionaire rapper says he's "walking for president" as GOP operatives work to get him on state ballots
When it was pointed out that he actually can’t win in 2020—that he won’t be on enough ballots to yield 270 electoral votes, and that a write-in campaign isn’t feasible—and thus was serving as a spoiler, West replied: “I’m not going to argue with you. Jesus is King.”
Chen Qiushi has been missing since February 6. He disappeared after shooting a series of reports from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak #OneFreePress
He is one of the journalists on this month’s #OneFreePress 10 Most Urgent list of journalists who have been attacked for investigating human rights violations, government corruption and environmental destruction