Two of the companies atop the Fortune list, Chesapeake Energy and Devon Energy, are major contributors to the 1, 300 new energy jobs birthed in the city in 2010 alone.
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So, consider this: The Fortune 500 list for 2012 had 18 Female CEOs out of 500.
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But only Petronas, a Malaysian oil and gas firm, also appears in the Fortune 500 list of top international firms.
The electronics business is so big that if it were an independent enterprise, it would be on the Fortune 200 list of major corporations.
The Fortune 500 list in recent years ranks it under the Information Technology Services industry, when years ago it would have been ranked under Computers, Office Equipment.
China has 37 companies on the Fortune 500 list.
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The company ranks 111 in the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest companies.
Dr Ambady and Mr Rule showed 100 undergraduates the faces of the chief executives of the top 25 and the bottom 25 companies in the Fortune 1, 000 list.
To be sure, there are no Latinas as CEOs of top Fortune 500 companies per 2012 list.
That means immigrant entrepreneurs are overrepresented on the list of founders of Fortune 500 companies.
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Today, a much higher percentage of list members obtain their fortune from listed stocks.
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Zhu Yuguo, ranks at 102 on the Forbes China Rich List, with a personal fortune of 5.71 billion Yuan and has invested heavily in the wind power industry.
When fortunes get spread across several generations, Forbes considers the wealth to be a family fortune and excludes the owners from our billionaires list.
However, the 25-year-old has found immense fame and enough fortune to make The Times Top Ten Sport Rich List for those aged under 30, shooting hoops rather than scoring goals.
Yes, his story is one from the rag trade to the rich list but it is unconventional in that his fortune was made outside of the fast-growing emerging markets.
Iranian billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani has amassed the kind of fortune that could qualify him for a place on Forbes rich list.
The only woman to crack the top 10 in tech on The Forbes 400 is list newcomer Laurene Powell Jobs, who inherited the fortune left behind by late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
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Through fame and fortune, the Pill has brought Dr Djerassi a large and varied list of acquaintances.
We think the list that shows giving as a percentage of profits is the most meaningful, because it demonstrates what share of its fortune a company is willing to put into doing good, while the cash list is in some measure based on the size of the company.
Bush, the second son of a president to attain the office, made our list of the richest presidents partly based on his claim to a family fortune, but mostly because of a windfall on his investment in the Texas Rangers baseball franchise.
Kim, 44, is a rare member of the list who made his money from scratch rather than inheriting a chunk of a chaebol fortune.
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