Beth Kowitt, Columnist

The 5 Biggest Forces to Watch in Corporate America

The coming year will challenge Big Business. Here’s what to keep an eye on.

What’s on the agenda in corporate boardrooms for 2025.

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The C-suites and boardrooms of corporate America should be on high alert entering 2025.

They are facing geopolitical turmoil, the uncertainty of a second Trump administration, an increasingly polarized country and a public that’s lost its faith in big business. Existential questions loom over the role of the country’s biggest companies during such a tumultuous moment — and who is best to lead them through it.