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How to nominate an executive for the 2023 Fortune Most Powerful Women list

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Emma Hinchliffe
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Claire Zillman
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July 6, 2023, 8:08 AM ET
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CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch was ranked No. 1 on the 2022 Fortune Most Powerful Women list.Jessica Chou for Fortune

Good morning, Broadsheet readers! CEO Linda Yaccarino weighs in on Twitter’s “rate limit” crisis, a CEO talks about an unflattering viral video, and we share all the details on how to nominate an exec for Fortune’s 2023 Most Powerful Women list. Have a wonderful Thursday!

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– Call for nominations. Happy summer! That means one thing for us at Fortune: We’re getting ready to bring you the 2023 edition of the Fortune Most Powerful Women list this fall.

The annual ranking of the most powerful women in business—CEOs, executives, founders—will be published just a few months from now. As we consider the past year in business—and it’s been an eventful one—we want to know: Who are the candidates we should have on our radar?

For an idea of the kinds of execs who generally make this list, check out last year’s ranking. The No. 1 spot went to Karen Lynch, who oversees the $322-billion-in-revenue CVS Health. Other listees include Fortune 500 and Global 500 CEOs as well as influential executives at companies that shape society and culture like Alphabet and Netflix.

Whether you’ve followed the comings and goings of this list closely for the past 26 (!) years or are learning of it for the first time now, we’d love your nominations. This is a global list, and we’re especially interested in learning about new business leaders outside the U.S.

To that end, we’ll be accepting nominations for this year’s ranking from now until July 31. Please email the following information to MPW2023@fortune.com.

  • The executive’s title, to whom she reports, her responsibilities, and how many employees she oversees
  • What country she’s based in
  • The candidate’s bio, including corporate boards or boards of other influential organizations
  • Specific accomplishments from the past year
  • The company’s annual revenue and profit
  • If the candidate is the head of a division, the division’s annual revenue and income
  • A description of how the candidate has, in a professional context, used her power to advance the interests of employees, the community, or society at large. (Examples might include: creating a program or business unit that serves a disadvantaged population, measurably reducing the company’s carbon footprint, or creating new hiring pipelines that have resulted in a more diverse workforce.)

Please send the above in no more than 750 words—again, that’s by July 31 to MPW2023@fortune.com.

Emma Hinchliffe
emma.hinchliffe@fortune.com
@_emmahinchliffe

The Broadsheet is Fortune’s newsletter for and about the world’s most powerful women. Today’s edition was curated by Emma Hinchliffe and Claire Zillman. Subscribe here.

ALSO IN THE HEADLINES

- Take it to the limit. Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino weighed in on the platform's "rate limit exceeded" meltdown that showed error messages to users who surpassed a newly-enacted viewing limit. "You need to make big moves to keep strengthening the platform," she said. Fortune

- Tuning in. Andi Owen, the CEO of the furniture company MillerKnoll, gave an interview that addressed a viral town hall video in which she told employees to "leave pity city" and stop complaining about their bonuses. The CEO says she "could have been more in tune" with her audience. Fast Company

- Alarming exodus. In the last month, six Black women in Hollywood studio leadership roles have exited their organizations. Several of those execs held roles overseeing diversity and inclusion. Exhaustion and lack of resources for their work have factored into the mass exodus. Variety

- Election spoiler. Xóchitl Gálvez, a businesswoman, activist, and senator who was born into poverty, is poised to spoil Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s carefully-laid plans to keep his left-wing Morena party in power in next year’s presidential elections. Gálvez’s indigenous roots and humble origins appeal to Mexico's rural poor and separate her from other opposition politicians. Financial Times

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Susan Fowler Rigetti, known for whistle-blowing at Uber, is joining Slate as editor of Future Tense. Amanda Rajkumar is exiting as Adidas's global head of human resources; she was the athletic brand's only female board member. 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

- Back to work. More than 3 in 4 U.S. women ages 25 to 54 are working or looking for work, the largest share on record. After leaving the workforce during COVID, women have stormed back, aided by the stacked résumés they’d established before the pandemic. “This generation of women didn't just have a foot in the door. They had their whole body through,” says economist Betsey Stevenson. NPR

- Record holder. Taylor Swift’s Eras tour is set to become the highest-grossing tour ever as it regularly brings in $13 million in ticket sales per show. The nightly sum, which doesn’t include merchandise sales, puts Swift on pace to gross more than $1 billion, a milestone no artist has ever reached. Bloomberg

- Pay day. Liz Truss, the U.K.’s shortest-serving prime minister, earned the equivalent of $101,600 from a Taiwanese think tank for a four-hour engagement in Taiwan earlier this year. In May, Truss delivered a speech in Taipei that blasted China and accused Europe of failing to support Taiwan. The visit drew criticism from Truss’s own Conservative Party. Bloomberg 

- Tiny homes, big goal. Since 2017, Pallet has built tiny homes for unhoused populations in more than 100 U.S. communities. Now the Everett, Wash.-based startup is planning its first international project in Canada. Founder and CEO Amy King says her goal is to end homelessness: “If I could put myself out of a job, that would be amazing.” Fortune 

ON MY RADAR

Closing the door on motherhood The Cut

Director of new women's history museum withdraws New York Times

My disabled body prepared me for motherhood like nothing else could Romper

PARTING WORDS

“People are going to interpret everything I do as my feelings on contemporary womanhood because I’m a contemporary woman. I don’t want to escape that part of me.”

—Writer-actor Phoebe Waller-Bridge on her work since Fleabag

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Emma Hinchliffe is Fortune’s Most Powerful Women editor, overseeing editorial for the longstanding franchise. As a senior writer at Fortune, Emma has covered women in business and gender-lens news across business, politics, and culture. She is the lead author of the Most Powerful Women Daily newsletter (formerly the Broadsheet), Fortune’s daily missive for and about the women leading the business world.

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Claire Zillman is a senior editor at Fortune, overseeing leadership stories. 

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