The Lists
F-1 The 500 Largest U.S. Corporations
F-23 Arrivals and Departures
F-24 Explanations and Notes
F-25 Company Performance
F-29 The 500 Ranked Within Industries
F-38 The 500 Ranked Within States
F-44 Index
HOT TIME IN THE OIL PATCH
Occidental Petroleum’s
acquisition of Anadarko has
set the industry alight.
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CONTENTS
Adventure
on the High
Seas
By AARON PRESSMAN
Sea Hunter is the
first of a new class of
warships that use A.I.
in place of a crew. How
defense contractor
Leidos could radically
change naval warfare,
one ship at a time.
152
Business
Bets on a
Quantum
Leap
By ROBERT HACKETT
Quantum computing
could help companies
address challenges
ranging from supply
chains to climate
change. That hope is
drawing tantalizingly
close to reality.
162
‘If Walmart
and
7-Eleven
Had a Baby’
By PHIL WAHBA
A crafty mix of
convenience and low
prices turned Dollar
General into a retail
giant. How much
bigger can it get?
142
The Self-
Destruction
of Sears
By GEOFF COLVIN with
PHIL WAHBA
Here’s how an
American icon—
and Fortune 500
stalwart—burned
itself to the ground.
176
With $10 billion worth
of chips from Warren
Buffett, Occidental
Petroleum’s Vicki
Hollub just took the
biggest poker hand in
the U.S. oil patch.
190
231
The Queen
of Texas
Hold’em
By JEN WIECZNER
202
Renewable energy
could reshape the
global economy—but
only if it can be cheaply
and safely stored.
Meet the companies
racing to crack the
anode code.
The Race
to Build
a Better
Battery
By JEFFREY BALL
PHOTOGRAPH BY BENJAMIN LOWY
