Fortune - USA (2019-06)

(Antfer) #1
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

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