Fortune - USA (2021-02 & 2021-03)

FORTUNE FEBRUARY/MARCH 2021 3

WHAT

COMES

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Features February/March 2021

62

After the

SolarWinds Hack

BY DAVID Z. MORRIS

& ROBERT HACKETT

How America

can untangle its

cybersecurity mess.

70

Busted

Stagecoach

BY REY MASHAYEKHI

Can Wells Fargo CEO

Charlie Scharf—

or anyone —fix the

beleaguered bank?

80

Hawkeye Elegy

BY ERIKA FRY

A brutal storm struck

Iowa, already reeling

from COVID -19 and

political discord. What

will it take to rebuild?

42

Cold-Blooded

Elon Musk is not about

to let a few endangered

reptiles throw a wrench

in Tesla’s ambitious

plans for a German Giga-

factory—and European

domination.

BY VIVIENNE WALT

99

The World’s

Most Admired

Companies

Fortune’s annual ranking

of corporate reputation.

BY SCOTT DECARLO

& MATT HEIMER

49

Now the Hard

Work Starts

BY BRIAN O’KEEFE

What lies ahead for

business, the economy,

and the battle against

COVID-19.

52

The Most

Prepared Woman

in Washington

BY NICOLE GOODKIND

& GEOFF COLVIN

Trailblazing Treasur y

Secretary Janet Yellen

must stabilize a COVID -

ravaged economy—and

that’s just the beginning

of her ambitious agenda.

CONTENTS

Cover image by

NICOLAS ORTEGA

VOLUME 183 • NUMBER 1

HEARTBREAK IN THE

HEARTLAND: Battered grain

bins in Luther, Iowa, in the

wake of an Aug. 10 derecho.

COVER, ORIGINAL PHOTO (BIDEN): ANGELA WEISS— AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES; IOWA: DANIEL ACKER—GETTY IMAGES