Posts Tagged ‘ranking’

Top Ten Annual Value Creators Rankings

Friday, September 10th, 2010

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 Recession has been to accelerate the ascent of companies from rapidly developing economies to the top ranks of the world’s creators of shareholder value, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). This is the core finding of Threading the Needle: Value Creation in a Low-Growth Economy, the twelfth annual report in BCG’s Value Creators series.


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Texas opens inquiry into Google search rankings

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Google Inc.’s methods for recommending websites are being reviewed by Texas’ attorney general in an investigation spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet’s dominant search engine.

The antitrust inquiry disclosed by Google late Friday is just the latest sign of the intensifying scrutiny facing the company as it enters its adolescence. Since its inception in a Silicon Valley garage 12 years ago, Google has gone from a quirky startup to one of the world’s most influential businesses with annual revenue approaching $30 billion.

A spokesman for Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott confirmed the investigation, but declined further comment.

The review appears to be focused on whether Google is manipulating its search results to stifle competition.

The pecking order of those results can make or break websites because Google’s search engine processes about two-thirds of the search requests in the U.S. and handles even more volume in some parts of the world. (more…)

Fortune 500 2010 Ranking Fortune Magazines

Friday, April 16th, 2010

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 dreadful to less depressing. Twenty-seven months after the recession began, unemployment is stuck at 9.7%. Housing starts are dragging near half-century lows. Consumers are finally spending again, but they’re still too fearful about their jobs and homes to crowd malls and auto lots with the buoyant abandon that heralds a full-rigged revival, the kind Americans are used to.

Amazingly, as consumers struggle, U.S. corporations are staging a nearly unprecedented comeback that’s largely escaping notice. The gargantuan, dispiriting job cuts that seem to dominate the news have also been the spur for an epic resurgence in profits. For 2009, the Fortune 500 lifted earnings 335%, to $391 billion, a $301 billion jump that’s the second largest in the list’s 56-year history, approaching the increase in the robust recovery of 2003. For last year the 500 raised their return on sales from less than 1% to 4%. That’s close to the list’s 4.7% historical average.

Hence, the 500’s profits virtually returned to normal after years of extremes — bubbles in 2006 and 2007, collapse in 2008 — despite a feeble overall recovery that’s far from normal. This year’s list — reminder: the Fortune 500 ranks U.S. companies by revenue — is packed with changes that reflect and spotlight the trends reshaping corporate America. The homebuilders that occupied 14 places in 2007 and three last year, including Centex and Pulte, have all disappeared, casualties of shrinking sales. No fewer than nine newcomers from recession-resistant health care joined in 2009, among them drugmakers Genzyme (sales: $4.5 billion) and Allergan ($4.5 billion). (more…)

World University Ranking Tsinghua University and Hong Kong 3 University enter into top 50

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

据英国《泰晤士报》报道,该报与英国著名高等教育研究机构QS(Quacquarelli Symonds)联合进行的2009年世界大学评估8日出炉,美英两国大学席卷榜单高位,中国香港有3所大学进入榜单前50名,而中国内地只有清华大学进入Top50。

东京大学排名榜单第22位,在亚洲排名首位,香港大学排名第24位紧随其后,另外香港科技大学(35位)和香港中文大学(46位)也进入了前50名的榜单。

清华大学今年在此榜单中上升明显,排名第49位,跃升7位,去年排名为第56位。 (more…)

2009 Top 100 Best Global Brands Rankings

Friday, September 18th, 2009

1 Coca-Cola 68,734 3% US

2 IBM 60,211 2% US

3 Microsoft 56,647 -4% US

4 GE 47,777 -10% US

5 Nokia 34,864 -3% Finland

6 McDonald’s 32,275 4% US

7 Google 31,980 25% US

8 Toyota 31,330 -8% Japan

9 Intel 30,636 -2% US

10 Disney 28,447 -3% US
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Top 50 Management and Strategy Consulting Firms

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

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 industry and their interest to consulting job seekers. This year, over 4,000 consultants responded to our survey.
The Vault survey was distributed to the firms on Vault’s list in spring 2008. In some cases, Vault contacted practicing consultants directly. Survey respondents were asked to rate each consulting firm on the survey on a scale of 1 to 10 based on prestige, with 10 being the most prestigious. Consultants were unable to rate their own firm, and they were asked to rate only those firms with which they were familiar.

Vault collected the survey results and averaged the score for each firm. The firms were then ranked, with the highest score being No. 1, down to No. 50.

We also asked survey respondents to give their perceptions of other consulting firms besides their own. A selection of those comments is featured on each firm profile as The Buzz.

Remember that Vault’s top-50 strategy consulting firms are chosen by practicing consultants at top consulting firms. Vault does not choose or influence the rankings. The rankings measure perceived prestige (as determined by consulting professionals) and not revenue, size or lifestyle.

2009
RANK

FIRM

SCORE

2008
RANK

HEADQUARTERS/
LARGEST OFFICE

1

McKinsey & Company

8.430

1

New York, NY

2

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.

8.089

2

Boston, MA

3

Bain & Company

7.966

3

Boston, MA

4

Booz & Company

6.535

4

New York, NY

5

Monitor Group

6.296

5

Cambridge, MA

6

Mercer LLC

6.160

9

New York, NY

7

Deloitte

5.844

8

New York, NY

8

Oliver Wyman

5.755

6

New York, NY

9

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

5.572

NR

New York, NY

10

L.E.K. Consulting

5.426

13

Boston, MA
London

11

Ernst & Young LLP

5.388

NR

New York, NY
London

12

A.T. Kearney

5.373

15

Chicago, IL

13

IBM Global Business Services

5.352

11

Armonk, NY

14

Accenture

5.314

14

New York, NY

15

The Parthenon Group

5.306

10

Boston, MA

16

KPMG LLP

5.246

NR

New York, NY

17

Katzenbach Partners LLC

5.146

16

New York, NY

18

Towers Perrin

4.848

18

Stamford, CT

19

Capgemini

4.752

22

New York, NY
Paris

20

Gartner, Inc.

4.728

12

Stamford, CT

21

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

4.684

20

New York, NY
Munich

22

ZS Associates

4.645

24

Evanston, IL

23

Cambridge Associates LLC

4.588

21

Boston, MA

24

Hewitt Associates

4.541

23

Lincolnshire, IL

25

NERA Economic Consulting

4.540

27

White Plains, NY

26

Navigant Consulting, Inc.

4.539

29

Chicago, IL

27

AlixPartners, LLP

4.457

26

Southfield, MI

28

BearingPoint, Inc.

4.433

28

McLean, VA

29

Watson Wyatt Worldwide

4.355

25

Arlington, VA

30

Kurt Salmon Associates

4.276

36

Atlanta, GA

31

CRA International, Inc.

4.275

30

Boston, MA

32

Huron Consulting Group

4.261

39

Chicago, IL

33

Arthur D. Little

4.186

40

Boston, MA
Paris

34

Diamond Inc.

4.149

45

Chicago, IL

35

PRTM

4.131

33

Mountain View, CA
Waltham, MA

36

Gallup Consulting

4.055

31

Washington, DC

37

The Advisory Board Company

4.020

38

Washington, DC

38

FTI Consulting, Inc.

3.925

46

Baltimore, MD

39

First Manhattan Consulting Group

3.859

42

New York, NY

40

Corporate Executive Board

3.844

41

Washington, DC

41

Cornerstone Research

3.838

37

New York, NY
San Francisco, CA

42

Mitchell Madison Group LLC

3.790

NR

New York, NY

43

LECG

3.782

35

Emeryville, CA

44

Alvarez & Marsal

3.758

43

New York, NY

45

Mars & Co

3.737

48

Greenwich, CT

46

Aon Consulting Worldwide

3.624

49

Chicago, IL

47

Analysis Group, Inc.

3.519

47

Boston, MA

48

Archstone Consulting

3.512

NR

Stamford, CT

49

Hay Group

3.415

44

Philadelphia, PA

50

IMS Health Incorporated

3.370

NR

Norwalk, CT