JPMorgan Chase

It will also invest in mortgage and small-business lending and in neighborhood revitalization efforts there. The moves are part of a nationwide expansion by the largest U.S. bank.

It's a testament to Piepszak's ability to get things done that the bank picked her last year to run one of its most consequential business lines.

Under CEO Kelly Coffey, JPMorgan Chase’s private bank is growing revenue by double digits and is laying out plans for a big nationwide expansion.

As companies grappled this year with the fallout from the #MeToo movement, Stacey Friedman led an initiative at JPMorgan Chase to make sure employees feel comfortable calling out misbehavior when they see it.

Can improv classes help women in tech advance to senior leadership? It's one tactic to attract and retain top female technologists at the nation's largest bank.

Thasunda Duckett, the CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, is leading the charge as JPMorgan Chase expands its retail bank.

In her nearly six years as chief financial officer, Marianne Lake has emerged as the public voice of JPMorgan Chase, fielding questions from investors and reporters in a rapid-fire style that makes her sound unflappable. Nowhere was that more on display than earlier this year.

Under Liz Myers, J.P. Morgan's capital markets group was the No. 1 underwriter for IPOs in the U.S. and Latin America last year. Now she has her sights set on China.

Innovative. Influential. Impactful. The 25 female leaders in this ranking are skillfully navigating industry disruption and — in many ways — driving it as well.

Under Chang, J.P. Morgan's top-rated research team produces more than 140,000 reports, models, updates and alerts annually.