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Female entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important source of economic growth. Female entrepreneurs create new jobs for themselves and others and also provide society with different solutions to management, organisation, and business problems. However, they still represent a minority of all entrepreneurs.
There were 337 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 4 April 2023, up from 327 in 2022. [1] Since 2021, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has been listed as the world's wealthiest woman. According to a 2021 billionaire census, women make up 11.9% of the billionaire cohort, and "just over half of all female billionaires are heiresses, with ...
This is a list of entrepreneurs by century. An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. [ 1 ] This list includes notable entrepreneurs.
Forbes recognized Holmes as the world's youngest self-made female billionaire and ranked her #110 on the Forbes 400 in 2014. [39] Theranos was valued at $9 billion and had raised more than $400 million in venture capital. [13] [40] By the end of 2014, her name appeared on 18 U.S. patents and 66 foreign patents. [24]
Forbes named her the #3 most powerful woman in 2008. [35] In 2014, she was ranked #13 by Forbes. [7] Fortune ranked her the #1 in the list of Most Powerful Women in Business in 2009 and 2010. On October 7, 2010, Fortune magazine ranked her the 6th most powerful woman in the world. [36] [37] In Fortune's Most Powerful Women List of 2015, Nooyi ...
Since 2004, Forbes, an American business magazine, has published an annual list of its ranking of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Edited by prominent Forbes journalists, including Moira Forbes , the list is compiled using various criteria such as visibility and economic impact.
Forbes named her the world's most powerful celebrity in 2005, [168] 2007, [169] 2008, [151] 2010, [170] and 2013. [171] As chairman of Harpo Inc., she was named the most powerful woman in entertainment by The Hollywood Reporter in 2008. [172] She has been listed as one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes, ranking 14th in 2014 and ...
Vandana Luthra (born July 12, 1959) is an Indian entrepreneur and the founder of VLCC Health Care Ltd, a beauty and wellness conglomerate [1] represented in Asia, the GCC and Africa. [2] She is also the chairperson of the Beauty & Wellness Sector Skill Council (B&WSSC), an initiative that provides training under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas ...