Tracking this year’s top 10 over the past two decades. WALMART ranked No. 1 on the 500 for the 12th year in a row—and has generated $6.3 trillion in revenue during its time at the top. Its growing market share among higher-income grocery shoppers hel

IT TOOK FIVE DECADES of failure to turn Tide Pods into an overnight success. The “unit-dose” detergent pods became one of the biggest-ever hits for consumer products giant Procter & Gamble not long after their 2012 debut. But P&G had launched an earl

GEN ZERS AND MILLENNIALS ARE EXPECTED TO comprise 72% of the global workforce by 2029, according to the World Economic Forum. The aspirations and expectations that these generations have for their careers are critical for business leaders to understa

MODERN BUSINESS LEADERS HAVE ACCESS TO MORE TOOLS THAN EVER before to understand and engage their workforces. However, 2024 Gallup research found an ongoing decrease in employee engagement in the U.S.—marking the lowest level in more than a decade. T

JUST 25 MILES NORTH OF DALLAS, THE CITY OF Frisco has become a go-to destination for residents, workers, and business. Over the past three decades, this once small community has become one of the fastest growing cities in America. Situated in the Dal

SINCE ITS FOUNDATION IN THE EARLY 20th century, Tokyu Corporation has played a major role in the history of Japanese communities, through urban development and then later through rail connections. The firm is now looking to help lead the nation’s cit

ON AN APRIL MORNING at Walmart’s headquarters, Doug McMillon was getting the Ryan Gosling treatment. The occasion was a meeting to celebrate about 150 of Walmart’s long-tenured employees; the giant retailer holds a few such gatherings every year at i

AT THE END of February 2022—a few days after cofounders Luke Allen and Steven Simoni sold their 90-person restaurant-tech startup to DoorDash—Russia invaded Ukraine. Allen, who, like Simoni, had served in the Navy, immediately pivoted and started des

HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS ARE facing ongoing economic challenges, labor shortages, and widespread physician burnout, according to the American Medical Association. Yet, they are under more pressure than ever to provide top-level care while also keepi

SOMETHING HAS CAUGHT Satya Nadella’s attention. It’s a small thing—just a five-letter word inside a box, lurking in the corner of a complicated PowerPoint slide, flashed on a screen for a fraction of a second inside a convention hall in Kuala Lumpur,

IT’S EASY TO TELL when some things have expired. Stock options. Eggs. Prescription meds. Credit cards. But corporate America has long been stumped trying to find a more elusive expiration date: How can a company know when it’s time for a CEO to go? A

SUPER MICRO Computer spent over 30 years in one of the least sexy segments of the tech landscape: building high-performance servers. But lately the company has caught the broader AI wave, and it’s now plenty sexy. In the past five years, Super Micro’

WHEN THINKING ABOUT THE STATE OF TEXAS, a few things might come to mind: cowboy culture, barbecue, or wide-open spaces—and maybe even the historic Alamo in San Antonio, an enduring symbol of the state’s deeply embedded independence. But thanks to con

THE ROAD TO autonomous driving is not for the faint of heart. Look behind to view the wreck of Uber’s self-driving car. In the ditch to the left is General Motors’ Cruise robo-taxi. And that scent of burning rubber? That’s from the skid marks Apple m

RACHEL ROMER remembers lying on the ground on a warm August evening last year, watching as darkness descended around her. She had been sitting on her outdoor patio in Denver, where she liked to unwind from long days as the CEO of Guild, the $4.4 bill

IN EARLY MARCH, Joe Martin, the owner of Function Better, a physical therapy clinic in Yorkville, N.Y., looked at his business bank account and thought he’d been hacked. After more than 22 years in operation, Martin, an orthopedic clinical specialist

IN JAPAN, ECONOMIC SUCCESS IS A TEAM effort—now more than ever. While many of the biggest Japanese companies may be globally renowned household names, there are countless more firms whose impact on industry is just as significant from behind the scen

GO ON VACATION. Come back ripped. That’s the enticing pitch—to be an all-expenses-paid guinea pig for a new kind of luxe fitness hotel, Dubai’s SIRO One Za’abeel. What better way to celebrate the big 5-0 than by calling in some reinforcements for my

SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD founder Marie Jerusalem has never felt more able to adapt to the changing demands of the corporate world. “My body’s not as agile as it used to be, but mentally I’m stronger today than I’ve probably ever been in my entire career,”

CHINA IS HOME TO SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR internet businesses today. Many of them may attribute their success to a secret weapon driving their growth: recommendation algorithms. Informed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, these formulas

MANY FIRMS DISCUSS THE ADVANTAGES OF pursuing smart technology and sustainable development goals. At Nitto Kohki, these elements are literally being built into the fabric of the business. When the company’s new production plant opens next year, it wi

ALMOST 10% OF THE COMPANIES on this year’s Fortune 500—49 in all—have made our list of America’s biggest businesses by revenue every year since its first edition, in 1955. All 49 are highlighted in these graphics, which also show their size relative