100 Most Powerful People in Business Methodology (2025)
Fortune’s editors scored each candidate for the 100 Most Powerful People in Business list on the following metrics:
- Size of the business the person runs, based on midterm (three-year) and short-term (past 12 months) revenue and profit growth, profitability, and market cap.
- Health of the business, based on trailing 12-month measures of liquidity, operating efficiency, and solvency.
- Innovation: Has the person accomplished something nobody else has and that
competitors follow? - Influence: How greatly do their words and actions shape the behavior of others?
- Trajectory: Where is the person in the arc of their career?
- Impact: Is this person using their power to make the world a better place?
Data editors: Scott DeCarlo and Aris Stavropoulos