Fortune - Women to Watch

Carolyn Corvi
Vice President and General Manager, Airplane Production, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Boeing

Gail Berman
President, Paramount
Viacom

Michelle Peluso
CEO, Travelocity
Sabre Holdings

Mary Erdoes
CEO, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
J.P. Morgan Chase

Dorothy Kim
SVP, Supply Chain and Coffee Operations
Starbucks

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Fortune - Most Powerful Women in International Business 2005

1Anne Lauvergeon Areva Chairman
2 Xie Qihua Shanghai Baosteel Group Chairman
3 Marjorie Scardino Pearson CEO
4 Linda Cook Royal Dutch Shell Executive Director, Gas & Power
5 Tomoyo Nonaka Sanyo Electric Chairman and CEO
6 Marina Berlusconi Fininvest Chairman
7 Nancy McKinstry Wolters Kluwer Chairman and CEO
8 Ana Botin Banco Banesto Executive Chairman
9 Mary Ma Lenovo Chief Financial Officer
10 Fumiko Hayashi Daiei Chairman and CEO
11 Ho Ching Temasek Holdings CEO
12 Vivienne Cox BP CEO, Gas, Power & Renewables
13 Rose Marie Bravo Burberry CEO
14 Maria Aramburuzabala de Garza Grupo Modelo Vice Chairman
15 Yang Mianmian Haier Group President
16 Val Gooding Bupa CEO
17 Guler Sabanci Sabanci Holding Chairman and Managing Director
18 Patricia Barbizet Artemis Holding CEO
19 Clara Furse London Stock Exchange CEO
20 Kate Swann W.H. Smith CEO
21 Marie Ehrling TeliaSonera Sweden President
22 Lien Siaou-Sze Hewlett-Packard Senior Vice President
23 Imre Barmanbek Dogan Holding Deputy Chairman
24 Barbara Kux Royal Philips Electronics Chief Procurement Officer
25 Dominique Reiniche Coca-Cola President and COO, EU Division
26 Barbara Dalibard France Telecom Executive Vice President
27 Ann Godbehere Swiss Re Chief Financial Officer
28 Maria Ramos Transnet CEO
29 Theresa Gattung Telecom New Zealand CEO
30 Dominique Heriard Dubreuil Remy Cointreau Chairman
31 Sawako Noma Kodansha President and CEO
32 Galia Maor Leumi Group President and CEO
33 Sly Bailey Trinity Mirror CEO
34 Barbara Stymiest Royal Bank of Canada Chief Operating Officer
35 Lubna Olayan Olayan Financing CEO
36 Françoise Gri IBM France CEO
37 Dawn Robertson Myer CEO
38 Yoshiko Shinohara Tempstaff President
39 Pansy Ho Shun Tak Holdings Managing Director
40 Marie-Christine Caubet Renault Senior Vice President
41 Marjorie Yang Esquel Group Chairman and CEO
42 Ofra Strauss-Lahat Strauss-Elite Group Chairman
43 Amelia Fawcett Morgan Stanley International Vice Chairman
44 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Biocon Chairman and Managing Director
45 Wanda Rapaczynski Agora President
46 Teresita Sy-Coson SM Investments Vice Chairman
47 Chanda Kochhar ICICI Bank Executive Director
48 Dong Mingzhu Gree Electric Appliances President
49 Vidya Chhabria Jumbo Group Chairman
50 Chua Sock Koong Singapore Telecommunications Chief Financial Officer

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Fortune - Most Powerful Women in Business 2005

1Meg Whitman eBay Chairman and CEO
2 Anne Mulcahy Xerox Chairman and CEO
3 Brenda Barnes Sara Lee President and CEO
4 Oprah Winfrey Harpo Chairman
5 Andrea Jung Avon Chairman and CEO
6 Pat Woertz Chevron EVP, Global Downstream
7 Sallie Krawcheck Citigroup CFO, Head of Strategy
8 Abigail Johnson Fidelity President, Fidelity Employer Services
9 Karen Katen Pfizer Vice Chairman, President of Human Health
10 Judy McGrath Viacom Chairman and CEO, MTV Networks
11 Indra Nooyi PepsiCo President and CFO
12 Christine Poon Johnson & Johnson Vice Chairman; Worldwide Chairman, Medicines & Nutritionals
13 Ann Moore Time Inc. Chairman and CEO
14 Pat Russo Lucent Technologies Chairman and CEO
15 Ginni Rometty IBM SVP, Enterprise Business Services, IBM Global Services
16 Anne Sweeney Walt Disney Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney-ABC Television
17 Susan Arnold Procter & Gamble Vice Chairman, Global Beauty Care
18 Ann Livermore Hewlett-Packard EVP, Technology Solutions Group
19 Zoe Cruz Morgan Stanley Acting President
20 Charlene Begley General Electric CEO and President, Plastics
21 Martha Stewart Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Founder
22 Anne Stevens Ford Motor COO, Americas
23 Susan Desmond-Hellmann Genentech President of Product Development
24 Susan Ivey Reynolds American President, CEO Reynolds American; Chairman, CEO, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
25 Amy Woods Brinkley Bank of America Chief Risk Officer
26 Shelly Lazarus WPP Chairman, CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
27 Irene Rosenfeld PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, Frito-Lay
28 Heidi Miller J.P. Morgan Chase CEO, Treasury and Securities Services
29 Linda Dillman Wal-Mart EVP and CIO
30 Mary Minnick Coca-Cola EVP; President of Marketing, Strategy, and Innovation
31 Carol Bartz Autodesk Chairman, CEO, and President
32 Doreen Toben Verizon CFO
33 Stacey Snider GE Chairman, Universal Pictures
34 Cathleen Black Hearst Magazines President
35 Lisa Weber MetLife President, Individual Business
36 Lois Quam United Health Group CEO, Ovations
37 Carrie Cox Schering-Plough EVP; President, Global Pharmaceuticals
38 Nancy Peretsman Allen & Co. EVP, Managing Director
39 Mary Sammons Rite Aid President and CEO
40 Susan Decker Yahoo CFO and EVP, Finance and Administration
41 Dawn Hudson PepsiCo President and CEO, Pepsi-Cola North America
42 Amy Pascal Sony Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment
43 Claire Watts Wal-Mart EVP, Product Development, Apparel and Home Merchandising
44 Vivian Banta Prudential Financial Vice Chairman
45 Ellyn McColgan Fidelity President, Fidelity Brokerage
46 Ellen Kullman DuPont Group VP
47 Barbara Desoer Bank of America Global Technology, Service and Fulfillment Executive
48 Ursula Burns Xerox SVP
49 Safra Catz Oracle Co-President
50 Kathy Cassidy General Electric Treasurer

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The Economist - Top thinkers' top books

strategy+business, a publication sponsored by consultants Booz Allen Hamilton, asked some of the world's “most distinguished business thinkers” to choose (from a shortlist) their favourite books published in the last 12 months. Their choices in various categories were:

The future
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman

Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

Globalisation
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Work and life
Creating the Good Life: Applying Aristotle's Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness by James O'Toole

Management
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald

Marketing
ProfitBrand: How to Increase the Profitability, Accountability & Sustainability of Brands by Nick Wreden

Media
Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media by Seth Mnookin

Leadership
A Life in Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero: An Autobiography by John C. Whitehead

Link to the list here.

CNN Top Innovations

1. The Internet
2. Cell phone
3. Personal computers
4. Fiber optics
5. E-mail
6. Commercialized GPS
7. Portable computers
8. Memory storage discs
9. Consumer level digital camera
10. Radio frequency ID tags
11. MEMS
12. DNA fingerprinting
13. Air bags
14. ATM
15. Advanced batteries
16. Hybrid car
17. OLEDs
18. Display panels
19. HDTV
20. Space shuttle
21. Nanotechnology
22. Flash memory
23. Voice mail
24. Modern hearing aids
25. Short Range, High Frequency Radio

Link to the list here.

CNN Top 25 in Business

1. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
2. Sam Walton, former CEO of Wal-Mart
3. Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric
4. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
5. Lee Iacocca, former CEO of Chrysler
6. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
7. Herb Kelleher, chairman of Southwest Airlines
8. Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer
9. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve
10. Carl Icahn, 1980s corporate raider
11. Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel
12. Michael Milken, former junk-bond wizard
13. John Reed, former CEO of Citigroup
14. Ted Turner, founder of CNN
15. Jim Clark, former CEO of Netscape
16. Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay
17. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
18. Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney
19. Peter Lynch, manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund
20. Phil Knight, CEO of Nike
21. Katharine Graham, late CEO of Washington Post Co.
22. W. Edwards Deming, influential business consultant
23. Ken Lay, former CEO of Enron
24. Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster
25. Lou Gerstner, former CEO of IBM

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Fortune - 2005 BLUE-RIBBON COMPANIES

Cisco Systems
Eli Lilly
Microsoft
Pfizer
Procter & Gamble
Abbott Laboratories
American Express
American International Group
Amgen
Bank of America Corp.
Best Buy
Chevron
Citigroup
Coca-Cola
ConocoPhillips
Constellation Energy
Dell
DuPont
Exxon Mobil
FedEx
General Electric
General Mills
General Motors
Goldman Sachs Group
Home Depot
Intel
Intl. Business Machines
Johnson & Johnson
Lockheed Martin
PepsiCo
Texas Instruments
United Technologies
Valero Energy
Walt Disney
3M
Alcoa
Allstate
American Electric Power
Anheuser-Busch
BellSouth
Berkshire Hathaway
Boeing
BP
Cardinal Health
Caterpillar
Colgate-Palmolive
Comcast
Costco Wholesale
Countrywide Financial
Deere
Delphi
Dow Chemical
Federated Department Stores
General Dynamics
Hartford Financial Services
Hewlett-Packard
Honda Motor
Honeywell International
International Paper
J.C. Penney
Johnson Controls
Kimberly-Clark
Kroger
Lear
Lehman Brothers Hldgs.
Lowe's
Marriott International
McKesson
Medtronic
Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
Nestle
New York Life Insurance
Northrop Grumman
Northwestern Mutual
Prudential Financial
Publix Super Markets
Royal Dutch/Shell Group
Safeway
SBC Communications
Sears Holdings
Siemens
Sony
Staples
Symantec
Target
TIAA-CREF
Time Warner
Toyota Motor
United Parcel Service
Verizon Communications
Viacom
Wachovia Corp.
Walgreen
Wal-Mart
Wells Fargo
Weyerhaeuser
Xerox

Link to the list here.

The Beacon Group's Top 10 Films...

Our List of Top 10 films - depicting Villains and Dysfunctional Behaviour

1. Hannibal Lecter in - THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
2. Nurse Ratched in - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
3. Phyllis Dietrichson in - DOUBLE INDEMNITY
4. Regan MacNeil in - THE EXORCIST
5. Michael Coreleone in - THE GODFATHER PART II
6. Noah Cross in - CHINATOWN
7. Captain Bligh in - MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
8. Mrs. Iselin in - THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
9. Jack Torrance in - THE SHINING
10. Max Cady in - CAPE FEAR

The Beacon Group's Top 10 Films...

Our List of Top 10 films - depicting Leadership Heroes and Role Models

1. Attiucus Finch in - TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
2. Indiana Jones in - RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
3. James Bond in - DR. NO
4. Clarice Starling in - SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
5. T.E. Lawrence in - LAWRENCE EOF ARABIA
6. Oskar Schindler in - SCHILNDLERS LIST
7. Harry Callahan in - DIRTY HARRY
8. Virgil Tubbs in - IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
9. Mahatma Gandhi in - GHANDI
10. Juror # 8 in - 12 ANGRY MEN

The Beacon Group's Top 20 Films...

Our List of the Top 20 films - depicting "team alignment, success & achievement"

1. Apollo 13
2. Erin Brokovitch
3. Chariots of Fire
4. Cinderella Man
5. The Natural
6. Norma Rae
7. Field of Dreams
8. Jerry Maguire
9. When We Were Kings
10. Raging Bull
11. Patton
12. Stand and Deliver
13. Miracle
14. Million Dollar Baby
15. Any Given Sunday
16. Bull Durham
17. Mike Bassett
18. Touching the Void
19. A League of their Own
20. The Big Blue

Fortune - 25 Breakout Companies

Aspen Aerogels

Attensity

AuthenTec

Bacterin

Crucell

Cypak

GoTV Networks

Intellifit

IODA

Khimetrics

MDA

Mobile 365

Odeo

OnTech

Orchestria

QuesTek

Scanbuy

SigmaTel

Sirtris Pharmaceuticals

Sling Media

Stirling Energy Systems

Techfaith Wireless

WholeSecurity

XDx

XenSource

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