Despite comprising of a smaller share of the U.S. population than African Americans or Hispanics, the most represented non-white U.S. CEOs were of an Asian background. They made up 55 percent of CEO positions at Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies in 2024. By comparison, 11 percent of CEOs at the time were African American. The rise of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) Investments in ESG have risen dramatically over last few years. In November 2023 there were approximately 480 billion U.S. dollars in ESG ETF assets worldwide, compared to 16 billion U.S. dollars in 2015. ESG measures were put in place to encourage companies to act responsibly, with the leading reason for ESG investing stated to be brand and reputation according to managers and asset owners. Gender diversity With the general acceptance of ESG in larger companies, there has still been a significant employment gap of women working in senior positions. For example, the share of women working as a partner or principal at EY, one of the largest accounting firms in the world, was just only 28 percent in 2023.

In 1995, zero percent of CEOs at Fortune 500 company were women. By 2024, this number had increased to **** percent of CEO's, or ** women. According to the source, Katharine Graham was the first woman CEO on the Fortunate 500 list in 1972.

This dataset shows the locations of the 50 companies that had the largest number of employees among the Fortune Global 500. The dataset also shows the company's revenue rank for 2007 The list comes from cnnmoney.com whose Fortune section does analysis on the top corporations throughout the world

This dataset shows the locations of the 100 companies that had the greatest revenue increase from 2005 to 2006 that are among the Fortune Global 500 for 2006. The list comes from cnnmoney.com whose Fortune section does analysis on the top corporations throughout the world