Meet Massachusetts' Women power players: $164B impact
The Boston Globe · Updated October ·
Meet the power players on the annual list from The Women’s Edge.
They’re at the helm of clinics and hospitals, banks and financial agencies, retail shops and airlines. They build houses, commercial spaces, and communities. They run universities and fight for justice. They’re the women power players of the Bay State, responsible for thousands of employees and billions in revenue, driving the Massachusetts economy. Meet them in the 2026 installment of this list, created by The Women’s Edge and published annually in the Women & Power issue of the Globe Magazine.
Taken together, the 100 companies on this list represent a total revenue and operating budget of over $164 billion — to be precise, $164,359,677,485. (That’s almost a 17 percent increase over last year’s figures.)
How this list was created: For each organization, The Women’s Edge, a nonprofit that supports female business leaders, examined 2025 revenue or operating budget as well as other variables, including number of full-time employees in the state, workplace and management diversity, and innovative projects. The Women’s Edge then ranked organizations according to its own formula. This is the 26th year that The Women’s Edge has created the list and the 14th year that the Globe Magazine has partnered with the group.
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