Phil Wahba

Phil Wahba is a senior writer at Fortune primarily focused on leadership coverage, with a prior focus on retail. His award-winning features include profiles of CEOs at J.C. Penney and Kohl’s and an examination of how private equity transformed the retail sector. Phil joined Fortune in 2014 from Reuters, where over the course of six years, he covered retail, corporate bankruptcies, the stock exchanges, and wrote a weekly column about IPOs. He has also worked as a trade commissioner in New York for the Canadian government. He holds a B.Comm from HEC Montréal and an MBA from the University of Ottawa. In 2007, he graduated from Columbia University with a Masters in Journalism. He is also a CFA charter holder. In addition to his native French and English, Phil speaks Danish, Spanish, and German. He has run a marathon in every U.S. state.

A general view of Costco Wholesale sign.

Leadership

How Costco’s formula for reaching uncertain consumers is pushing shares past $1,000 to all-time highs

BYPhil Wahba

Shoppers filter into a Dillard's department store in a mall Monday, April 29, 2024, in Lone Tree, Colo

Leadership

Dillard’s is an 86-year-old department store chain—and its stock has beaten Tesla, Apple, and Microsoft over the past four years. Here’s how they did it

BYPhil Wahba

Kohl’s CEO Tom Kingsbury.<br />
Courtesy of Kohl’s

Leadership

How Abercrombie & Fitch’s former CEO Mike Jeffries, now accused of sex trafficking, almost ran the company into the ground

BYPhil Wahba

Francisco Gomes Neto, Chief Executive Officer of Embraer addresses the gathering on the first day of the three-day B20 Summit in New Delhi on August 25, 2023. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Leadership

How the CEO of a major aerospace company totally rewrote his playbook after a $4.2 billion deal with Boeing fell through: ‘It was a baptism by fire’

BYPhil Wahba

Leadership

The CEO of consumer giant Reckitt is on a mission to slim down to just ‘power brands’ as the whole industry gets leaner

BYPhil Wahba

Roy Jakobs, chief executive officer of Royal Philips NV

Leadership

A $1 billion CPAP recall devastated Philips. The CEO’s turnaround plan involves overhauling company culture and adding a key role to the C-suite

BYPhil Wahba

Gina Drosos, chief executive officer of Signet Jewelers Ltd., during an interview in New York, U.S., on Monday, March 21, 2022. The owner of Kay Jewelers and Zales expects to further expand its market share this year, in part on the largest number of weddings in 40 years as pandemic-delayed couples rush to the altar. Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Leadership

How Signet Jewelers’ departing CEO revamped its e-commerce business and fixed a toxic ‘top-down’ company culture

BYPhil Wahba

Phil Wahba

How Costco’s formula for reaching uncertain consumers is pushing shares past $1,000 to all-time highs

Dillard’s is an 86-year-old department store chain—and its stock has beaten Tesla, Apple, and Microsoft over the past four years. Here’s how they did it

Why more CEOs should follow the chief of Kohl’s lead and own up to their screwups

Meet the three Walmart Inc. women who choose the $650 billion worth of goods it sells you every year

Walmart and Delta stock are both hitting all-time highs—and their CEOs have relied on a surprisingly similar strategy

Here’s what comes next for Tapestry and Capri after the death of their major fashion merger

Do insider or outsider CEOs perform better? Estée Lauder and Ross Stores’ new leaders illuminate the divide

Starbucks’ new CEO just delivered what employees and investors have been craving after years of drama and missteps

How an Indian tech company built a $19 billion brand by sponsoring the New York City marathon

How misguided M&A damaged America’s drugstores

How Abercrombie & Fitch’s former CEO Mike Jeffries, now accused of sex trafficking, almost ran the company into the ground

How the CEO of a major aerospace company totally rewrote his playbook after a $4.2 billion deal with Boeing fell through: ‘It was a baptism by fire’

The CEO of consumer giant Reckitt is on a mission to slim down to just ‘power brands’ as the whole industry gets leaner

A $1 billion CPAP recall devastated Philips. The CEO’s turnaround plan involves overhauling company culture and adding a key role to the C-suite

How Signet Jewelers’ departing CEO revamped its e-commerce business and fixed a toxic ‘top-down’ company culture