Fortune 500 Daily

It’s no secret. Wall Street has a diversity problem. Proof came in the numbers laid out by the House Financial Services Committee earlier this year. They showed women and minorities COMBINED make up less than 25-percent of all senior leaders at our nation’s biggest banks. David Solomon became C-E-O of Goldman Sachs last year.

As the world waits for the next door to open in the U-S versus China “Let’s Make a Deal” saga, global business leaders are bracing for impact. But Darius Adamcyzk seems to be taking it all in stride. He’s head of Honeywell International - a commercial and consumer products manufacturer that’s been doing business in China since the 19-30’s. In fact, the Asian nation is now Honeywell’s largest market outside the U-S.

J-P Morgan Chase is in the middle of a massive expansion. The nation’s largest bank plans to open 4-hundred new branches over the next five years. Roughly thirty-percent of those will be built in low-income communities in cities like Philadelphia, Boston and Washington D-C. One of the Chase executives driving the effort is Thasunda (tuh-SHUN-duh) Duckett. She’s the C-E-O of Consumer Banking – and the first African-American to hold that title.

Open up your pantry and chances are you’ve got a J-M Smucker product in there… Ninety-percent of U-S households do! Thanks to its Dunkin Donuts and Folgers coffee brands, Smucker’s has become the leading at-home coffee retailer. But there’s a new threat to delivering that daily caffeine fix… climate change. As temperatures rise – growing coffee is becoming more and more difficult.

More than two-hundred and thirty-million Americans have a Mastercard in their wallets. That number nearly triples outside U-S borders. There are more than six-hundred-million cardholders worldwide. This is part of Mastercard’s larger push for financial inclusion among underserved populations. As the company’s global efforts have grown, so has its focus on the global economy. In June, Executive Vice Chairman Ann Cairns, joined Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in London.

Now that paying the babysitter is as easy as a swipe on your smartphone – thanks to apps like Venmo and Zelle - there’s a decent chance your checkbook is gathering dust in a desk drawer. But Americans still love credit cards. And it’s not just airlines or retail stores offering credit cards now. Some big tech brands are also getting into the game. Apple partnered with Goldman Sachs to create the Apple Card.

When the Fortune 500 list came out in May – there were thirty-three women C-E-Os on the list. Today there are thirty-SIX. AutoNation’s Cheryl Miller is one of them. The company replaced long time C-E-O Mike Jackson in February – but, by July – had decided the new guy wasn’t a good fit. So AutoNation promoted Miller from C-F-O to C-E-O.

When Netflix cancelled its original series “The O-A” after its second season, fans were not happy. Protestors launched “Save The O-A” campaigns, threatened to cancel their Netflix accounts, and raised thousands of dollars to put up a digital billboard in Times Square. So why would Netflix cancel such a popular show? The answer: data. It suggested the show was too expensive to produce for the number of viewers tuning in.

Indra Nooyi served as C-E-O of PepsiCo for twelve years before stepping down last October. Running a packaged goods company just as consumers were starting to demand natural ingredients and healthy alternatives brought its share of challenges. Leading as a woman of color and an immigrant from India, brought another set. Nooyi took the stage at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit to share some of the lessons she learned with moderator Nina Easton.

Among the Fortune 1-thousand companies, women occupy only about 25-percent of the executive board seats. It’s a small percentage – but one that’s growing thanks to women like Robin Washington. She’s the Executive Vice President and C-F-O for Gilead Sciences – a Fortune 500 biotech company. Washington also serves on several boards – including Honeywell and Salesforce.