The world`s most powerful woman in business

Each year, Fortune magazine studies the accomplishments of leading businesswomen from around the world. The results of the research: Prestigious lists naming the 50 Most Powerful Women in business in America and internationally. Nearly everyone on the list is striving to reinvent her business. By pushing into new territories and inspiring women in their home countries, these globetrotters are, quite literally, taking on the world.

There are top-5 most powerful women from this list below.

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Top-5 most powerful women in business

Place	Name	Country	Company	Title	Achievements
	Marry Barra	USA	General Motors	Chief Executive Officer (CEO)	The first woman to run a global automaker, Barra oversees more than 212,000 employees in 396 GM facilities on six continents. An electrical engineer who has spent her entire career at GM, the new CEO faces big challenges in the U.S., where market share is at a historical low and profit margins are below Ford's, and Europe, where GM's Opel brand has lost billions. But companywide, profits are back, and Barra has the board's approval to invest to make GM prosper again [6]
	Ginni Rometti	USA	IBM	Chairman, CEO, President	Despite a recent earnings miss that prompted Rometty to give up her bonus, IBM remains formidable on the global stage, with customers and employees in 170 countries. She sees big opportunity especially in Africa; she'll visit several countries there this year. With a market capitalization of almost $200 billion, IBM is the world's most valuable woman-helmed company [6]

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Place	Name	Country	Company	Title	Achievements
	Indra Nooyi	USA	PepsiCo	Chairman, CEO	Nooyi has more than doubled sales from outside the U.S. in her seven years runningPepsiCo. International markets now make up about half of the company's $65.5 billion in revenue. Indian-born Nooyi has made sure her product pipeline reflects her consumer base: Since 2012, "innovation centers" have popped up in Shanghai, Hamburg, and Monterrey, Mexico [6]
	Maria das Graças Silva Foster	Brazil	Petrobras	CEO	At no. 25, Petrobras, with annual revenues of $144 billion, is the highest-ranking woman-led company on the Fortune Global 500. Foster faces Many challenges: She is selling off assets to shore up the energy company's balance sheet even as she plans to spend $237 billion on production and exploration projects [6]
	Ellen Kullman	USA	DuPont	Chairman, CEO	Kullman's reinvention of DuPont has a distinctly international flavor to it: Her 2011 acquisition of Danish food enzyme maker Danisco was key to an effort to push the company deeper into agriculture and nutrition (along with biotech and advanced materials). A third of the company's sales, $15.5 billion in the past six months, come from developing markets [6]

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