It’s always nice to be recognized for your efforts. Although Dell is honored to take the top slot in Newsweek’s Green Rankings for 2010 (see the complete list here), we also see this award as a reflection of your commitment to environmental stewardship. Having customers like you who strive to be greener is what inspires [...]

Companies From Emerging Markets Dominate Rankings of World’s Top Shareholder Value Creators, Says Report by The Boston Consulting Group Top Ten Performers in BCG’s Annual Value Creators Rankings Are All Based in Asia–Five in China, Two in Hong Kong, and One Each in India, Indonesia, and South Korea BOSTON, One side effect of the Great [...]

Spar Group, a supplier of retail merchandising and other marketing services, has announced the structuring of a new joint venture in China with its new partner Shanghai Wedone Marketing Consulting. Shanghai Wedone Marketing Consulting is a comprehensive marketing management company that provides brand communication and retail marketing management service in China. The new joint venture [...]

Insurance broker Aon Corp. announced its acquisition of human-resources consulting and outsourcing company Hewitt Associates Inc. for $4.9 billion in cash and stock to expand its consulting business. Aon will pay $50 per Hewitt share, representing a 41 percent premium to Hewitt’s closing stock price of $35.40 on Friday. Aon plans to integrate Hewitt with [...]

The companies in this year’s 500 list slashed costs so fast and so deeply especially labor that even in a feeble recovery, their earnings soared. The long-awaited recovery is now under way, but it’s a slow, painful slog that’s short on trust and confidence and long on a drumbeat of numbers that mostly shift from [...]

Even in these tough times, surprising and extraordinary efforts are under way in businesses across the globe. From politics to technology, energy, and transportation; from marketing to retail, health care, and design, each company on the following pages illustrates the power and potential of innovative ideas and creative execution. HP Acquires 3Com for $2.7 Billion, [...]

The 2009 prestige rankings of the top management and strategy consulting firms have arrived! This year’s survey is based on surveys of more than 4,000 consultants. Rankings methodology:For the 2008 Vault consulting survey, we selected a list of top consulting firms to include. These consulting firms were chosen because of their prominence in the consulting [...]