Fortune Most Powerful Women

Sallie Krawcheck still has the gold earrings she wore on the cover of Fortune magazine 22 years ago. On a June 2002 cover, the Wall Street veteran was labeled one of the “last honest analysts,” with a photo that she now deems “weirdly up close” on her face. Only 35 when she took the reins as CEO and chairman of the research firm Sanford C. Bernstein, Krawcheck went on to high-level roles at Fortune 500 giants Citigroup and Bank of America. She now boasts $2 billion in assets under management at Ellevest, an investment platform and financial literacy program primarily for women that she cofounded. And she graced the cover of Fortune not once but twice. Read more from #FortuneArchives and subscribe to our new newsletter! https://lnkd.in/eNn3C-sX

"She's just been there through every bit of my career and is still there as a mentor." In an interview with Fortune, U.S. Women’s National Team captain Lindsey Horan says mentor Tobin Health texts her after every game. "I'm very thankful for her," she added. bit.ly/3W8SSET

Making it to the Olympics is “a non-stop grind,” according to soccer star Lindsey Horan. The 30-year-old co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Team is gearing up for her third Olympics this summer after helping her team earn a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Now in her third Olympics, Horan will lead the 18-player roster, announced just last week, in Paris as the team aims to recapture a gold medal, one the U.S. has not seen since 2012. The call-up to the Olympic roster “still makes me super, super emotional,” the veteran tells Fortune, and while she describes the process as “exhausting,” it also comes with lucrative financial opportunities for the team. “A lot of our success in partnerships and brands always comes around major tournaments,” explained Horan. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ePUrdanf

"I spent years of my career at the traditional firms looking to make change from the inside, out." Ellevest founder and Wall Street veteran Sallie Krawcheck wants to break up the "boys' club" of Wall Street. bit.ly/4cNtoSL

“Soccer is a community.” Making it to the Olympics is “a non-stop grind,” according to soccer star Lindsey Horan. The 30-year-old co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Team is gearing up for her third Olympics this summer after helping her team earn a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Now in her third Olympics, Horan will lead the 18-player roster, announced just last week, in Paris as the team aims to recapture a gold medal, one the U.S. has not seen since 2012. As Horan sets her sights on this month’s Olympic Games, she’s leading the youngest U.S. women’s team since the 2008 Beijing Games. bit.ly/3W8SSET

Last year, Thasunda Brown Duckett, President and CEO of TIAA spoke to the graduating class of the MBA program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She reflected on her speech in a personal Linkedln post, where she shared some of her key reflections. “And what I know today, as a leader, is that I rent my title, but I own my character,” Duckett wrote. “I get introduced as Thasunda Brown Duckett, President and CEO of TIAA. But that title is rented. It describes me, but it doesn’t define me. I earned it, but I don’t own it. To own something feels entirely different. When you own something, it belongs to you. You can claim it and proclaim it. It’s yours,” she added. bit.ly/3Lcsu6J

CVS Health CEO Karen S. Lynch has been recognized as the highest-ranked female on the #Fortune500 list. At age 12, Lynch lost her mother to suicide; she was raised by her Aunt Millie, who died when Lynch was in her late 20s. As a young adult, Lynch became her aunt’s caretaker. Sitting by Millie’s hospital bed, failing to find the answers she sought about Millie’s breast and lung cancer, and trying to interpret incomprehensible medical bills helped inspire Lynch to enter the health care industry—with the ambitious goal of reforming it. On Feb. 1. 2021, she took over as president and CEO of CVS Health, a chain of more than 9,900 pharmacy locations that was in the midst of a multiyear effort to transform itself from retailer to health care company—a change it says will make care more transparent and accessible to its massive customer base. bit.ly/4cqbvde

Making it to the Olympics is “a non-stop grind,” according to soccer star Lindsey Horan. The 30-year-old co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Team is gearing up for her third Olympics this summer after helping her team earn a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Now in her third Olympics, Horan will lead the 18-player roster, announced just last week, in Paris as the team aims to recapture a gold medal, one the U.S. has not seen since 2012. While investment in women’s sports is growing, “there’s still a massive difference” between men’s and women’s contracts, admits Horan, whose status as the most expensive USWNT player nets her just $1.5 million in off- and on-field earnings, according to Forbes. “It’s an investment that we’ve talked about before, it just needs to keep growing and growing, which I think it will because you see the way that women’s sports is moving,” Horan says. bit.ly/4cHGOzG

Suni Lee is heading to Paris for the 2024 Olympics as one of five women to qualify for the U.S. women’s gymnastics team. However, the road to Paris has not been smooth sailing for Lee, who told TODAY this week that “it feels absolutely insane” to be marching toward her second Olympics representing Team USA. Lee swears by a daily mental ritual to calm her nerves and get in confidence mode, which includes journaling four to five pages before every competition. “I like to write down my keywords, trying to remember my why, things that I need to remember when I’m out there competing,” Lee tells Fortune. Read more: bit.ly/3RSvNUn

“It made me feel terrible. And it also was such a gift.” Sallie Krawcheck, Wall Street veteran and founder of Ellevest, walked Fortune through her early career and the building of Ellevest. Her work has led Krawcheck, 59, to become one of the most powerful women—and people, period—on Wall Street. During her ascent, Krawcheck led Bank of America’s Global Wealth and Investment Management division, and served as CEO of Sanford Bernstein and CFO of Citigroup, among many other plum roles. In an interview with Fortune, Krawcheck discussed being fired twice from glass-cliff jobs. bit.ly/4cNtoSL