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Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware?

by Stephanie Hughes
Feb 2, 2024
More than two-thirds of the Fortune 500 are incorporated in the First State, but Texas is gunning for a share of that.
The state flag of Delaware, where roughly two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated.
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How female leadership can uplift companies — and why it's so undervalued

by Kai Ryssdal and Sarah Leeson
Oct 13, 2022
Female-led companies tend to outperform those led by men, yet women are a small minority among CEOs and startup founders.
Female-led companies tend to outperform those led by men, but women are underrepresented in upper management.
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Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on the “work and family conundrum”

by Indra Nooyi
Sep 28, 2021
In an excerpt from her new memoir, the former PepsiCo leader talks about “care” infrastructure and creating transformational change.
“Transformation is difficult,” writes former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi. “But I have learned that with courage and persistence — and the inevitable give and take — it can happen.” Above, Nooyi speaks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in 2017.
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Biden asks federal agencies to gauge financial risk of climate change. Many businesses are already there.

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
May 21, 2021
The federal government is likely to start by following major businesses' lead, one analyst told us.
President Biden told federal agencies to report back on steps they’re taking to regulate the financial risk of climate change.
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What the SolarWinds hack could mean for the U.S. economy

by Kai Ryssdal
Dec 16, 2020
“I think it's going to take months, maybe a year to figure out where they went,” says New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Anthropologists help drill down on company culture

by Aaron Schrank
Jun 28, 2018
Corporate anthropologists work on everything from company culture to marketing research that helps companies understand customers better.
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Mayor eyes downtown development for Erie turnaround

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 21, 2018
There's a new mayor in Erie, Penn., for the first time in 12 years.
The Mayor wants Downtown Erie to become a place where millenials will live, walk to work and hang out on the waterfront.
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by Marketplace Contributor
Jun 2, 2014
Walmart, number one this year, clocks in with sales of $476,294,000,000.
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