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Beth Kowitt

Beth Kowitt is former a senior editor at Fortune, where she wrote features primarily on management and leadership issues, the business of food, consumer behavior, sustainability, and race and gender. Her writing received multiple awards, including several SABEW Best in Business and New York Press Club honors. She also co-edited Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women franchise and was a co-chair of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, MPW Next Gen, and the Fortune/U.S. Department of State Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. Beth, who joined Fortune in 2008, is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in New York City with her children and husband, photographer Karsten Moran.

  • From left to right: Gretchen Carlson, Tanuja Gupta, Tarana Burke, Dream Hampton, Christiane Amanpour and Ellen Pao.Magazine

    The women behind #MeToo, 5 years later: Tarana Burke, Ellen Pao, and Gretchen Carlson on what has and hasn’t changed

    BYMaria Aspan, Erika Fry, and others
  • JUPITER, FL – SEPT 24, 2022: Karen Lynch poses for a photograph in Jupiter, Florida United States, September 24, 2022. CREDIT: Saul MartinezNewsletters

    Meet Fortune’s 2022 Most Powerful Women in Business

    BYBeth Kowitt and Paige McGlauflin
  • Daily Harvest founder and CEO Rachel Drori.Newsletters

    Daily Harvest’s vegan frozen meals saved women time. Then the $1.1 billion startup’s food safety debacle broke their trust

    BYEmma Hinchliffe and Beth Kowitt
  • Daily Harvest founder and CEO Rachel Drori.Features

    The vomiting, diarrhea, and gallbladder surgeries were bad enough. Daily Harvest’s alleged food poisoning victims say the startup’s response made things worse

    BY
  • Daily Harvest founder and CEO Rachel Drori.Retail

    Exclusive: Daily Harvest is latest startup to announce layoffs

    BY
  • An embryologist is seen at work at the Virginia Center for Reproductive Medicine, in Reston, Virginia on June 12, 2019 – Freezing your eggs, getting pregnant after the age of 50, choosing the baby’s sex: when it comes to in-vitro fertilization and other assisted reproduction procedures in the United States, would-be parents are spoilt for choice. This isn’t the case in many other countries, including France, which is hoping to pass legislation that would let single women and lesbian couples benefit from these technologies for the first time. (Photo by Ivan Couronne / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Ivan COURONNE, “In US, relaxed IVF laws help would-be parents realize dreams” (Photo by IVAN COURONNE/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

    The uncertain future of fertility treatment is an ‘unintended consequence’ of the reversal of Roe

    BYBeth Kowitt and Paige McGlauflin
  • An embryologist points to an Ovocyte after it was inseminated at the Virginia Center for Reproductive Medicine, in Reston, Virginia.Features

    ‘If you can move them, move them’: Fertility experts say the end of Roe raises huge questions about the fate of frozen embryos in red states

    BY
  • Portrait of Fiona Cicconi, Chief People Officer at Google, taken on the Google campus in Mountain View, CA.<br /> Photograph by Winni WintermeyerLeadership

    Meet Google’s chief people officer, who is implementing one of the most challenging return-to-office plans ever attempted

    BY
  • A Google employee works inside the company&#8217;s new Pier 57 office in New York on April 20, 2022. Google requires its employees to come into the office three days a week. Photograph by Alex FradkinMagazine

    Inside Google’s push to nail hybrid work and bring its 165,000-person workforce back to the office part-time

    BY
  • Courtesy of Iwan Baan<br /> The campus incorporates biophilic design principles, including greenery, natural daylight and views outside from every desk to improve the health and wellbeing of those inside the building. Clerestory windows modulate direct light onto desks with automated window shades that open and close over the course of the day.Tech

    See Google’s futuristic new 1.1 million square-foot Bay View campus

    BYBeth Kowitt and Alex Scimecca
  • Publix CEO Todd Jones started his career at the supermarket chain bagging groceries.Magazine

    Shoppers are obsessed with Publix and Wegmans. Here’s what it’s really like to work there.

    BY
  • An outstretched arm holding a brown paper bagRetail

    What the hell is everyone eating for lunch?

    BY
  • Taylor’s steakhouse chain grew to more than 600 locations and a market cap of more than $5 billion under his watch.Magazine

    The founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse caught COVID. 4 months later, he died by suicide. Family and colleagues detail his final days and legacy

    BY
  • Former CEO Steve Easterbrook is paying McDonald's back $105 million to settle lawsuit.Retail

    Former McDonald’s CEO pays back $105 million to settle lawsuit alleging he concealed sexual relationships with employees

    BY
  • TripActions' Shaka Senghor says we might be in the same storm but we're not all on the same boat.Conferences

    Remote work was supposed to be the great equalizer. The reality? Not so much

    BY