Karen Lynch

In November, drugstore giant CVS acquired health insurer Aetna to become the world’s largest publicly traded health care company—and quickly tapped Lynch, who came in through the deal, to run Aetna, expected to be a $70 billion business. CVS is the first company to attempt to combine a pharmacy with an insurer and clinical care, and Lynch has a chance to inherit the whole conglomerate one day.

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