December 1, 2016 / Fortune Asia / Volume 174 / Number 7 / Businessperson of the Year

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FEATURES

THE 2016 BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR

NO.1 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
By ADAM LASHINSKY
How to lead like Zuck: The Facebook founder has built his social network into a global phenomenon and a growth powerhouse. Here’s what you can learn from how he manages.
PAGE NO. 25

NO. 5 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
By ANDREW NUSCA
Nadella’s traveling revival show: on the road with the man who is quietly transforming a fading legacy software operation into a hungry cloud-computing comer.
PAGE NO. 36

2016’s Top People in Business
The rest of the best: The standout executives on this year’s list have wildly varying styles and approaches, but just one thing in common葉hey deliver, big-time.
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NO. 20 United CEO Oscar Munoz
By SHAWN TULLY
A miracle comeback: Munoz returned to the helm of United Continental soon after a heart transplant. How he bounced back預nd why the company is starting to soar again.
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It Isn’t Easy Being Green
By BETH KOWITT
Seventh Generation-acquired by Unilever this fall-is cracking the code on how to make eco-friendly cleaning products. The challenge now? Selling them to the masses.
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DEPARTMENTS

FOREWORD

6 Editor’s Desk
The moral imperative for today’s business leaders.
By ALAN MURRAY

FORTUNE + TIME GLOBAL FORUM
8 Forging a New Social Compact
At our joint conference in Rome, more than 100 corporate bosses will address the challenges of creating a more inclusive and humane economy.
By CLIFTON LEAF

BRIEFING
9 The 2017 Fortune Crystal Ball
The future, in seven pages: our forecast for the year ahead in business, politics, and technology.

FOCUS

TECH
18 Business in the Cloud
Amazon eliminates wrapping paper ahead of the holidays in an attempt to accelerate fulfillment and advance its sustainability strategy.
By LEENA RAO

20 Fortune Brainstorm Health 2016
Highlights from our inaugural conference on the tech-fueled revolution in health care.

INVEST

22 Play Your Cards Right
Stronger consumer spending has generated big profits for the credit card industry. But investors should tread carefully.
By MATT HEIMER

FORUM
24 Disrupted
How to master change: Chipmaker Nvidia can teach us a few things about corporate transformation.
By DAN LYONS

BACK PAGE
LAST BYTE
64 Cash Hoarders
A graphic breakdown of this year’s mounting U.S. corporate cash stockpile.
Text by BRIAN O’KEEFE; graphics by NICOLAS RAPP

ON THE COVER: PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID PAUL MORRIS唯LOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES
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