Lee Clifford is an Executive Editor at Fortune. Primarily she works with the Enterprise reporting team, which covers Tech, Leadership, and Finance as well as daily news and analysis from Fortune’s most experienced writers. She also edits in-depth features and magazine stories, and edits CEO Daily, MPW Daily, and lists such as the Fortune 100 Most Powerful People in Business. Previously she oversaw Fortune’s beat reporting desks and was Finance Editor. She started her career at SmartMoney, the Wall Street Journal’s personal finance magazine. She grew up in Seattle, has a B.A. in history from Columbia, and is now based outside of Chicago.
By Lee CliffordMarch 31, 2026
InvestingRay Dalio warns that the monetary order is breaking down, leaving us with a terrible choice: ‘Do you print money or let a debt crisis happen?’
By Lee CliffordJanuary 21, 2026
InvestingGoldman Sachs expects layoffs to keep rising—and says investors are punishing the stocks of companies that slash staff
By Lee CliffordDecember 25, 2025
AIInside OpenAI’s fragile lead in the AI race, and the 8-week ‘code red’ to fend off a resurgent Google
By Jeremy Kahn, Alexei Oreskovic and Lee CliffordDecember 17, 2025
NewslettersLogitech CEO Hanneke Faber says she would consider adding an AI agent to her board of directors
By Lee CliffordOctober 16, 2025
By Lee CliffordApril 17, 2025
NewslettersBayer attacked bureaucracy by firing some 5,000 managers and asking teams to ‘self-organize.’ Here’s how it’s going after one year
By Lee CliffordJanuary 6, 2025
By Lee CliffordDecember 27, 2024
NewslettersHow were so many economists wrong on whether we’d have a recession? Northern Trust’s Ryan Boyle points to 3 culprits
By Lee CliffordDecember 23, 2024
By Lee CliffordNovember 12, 2024
By Lee CliffordJune 21, 2024
NewslettersThe founder of startup Bonobos hid a bipolar diagnosis for decades. Now he’s on a mission to destigmatize mental health at work
By Lee CliffordOctober 23, 2023
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