TBG Top Lists

Pink - CEO Pay: America's Top Women 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:57:00 +0000

Andrea Jung
Chairman & CEO, Avon Products Inc.
$13,697,232

Anne Mulcahy
Chairman & CEO, XEROX Corp.
$13,459,450

Indra K. Nooyi
Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo Inc.
$11,790,552

Irene Rosenfeld
Chairman & CEO, Kraft Foods Inc.
$11,299,535

Susan M. Ivey
Chairman, President & CEO, Reynolds American Inc.
$9,467,860

Christina A. Gold
President & CEO, Western Union Co.
$9,411,000

Angela F. Braly
President & CEO, Wellpoint Inc.
$9,094,271

Brenda C. Barnes
Chairman & CEO, Sara Lee Corp.
$8,692,394

Carol Meyrowitz
President & CEO, The TJX Companies Inc.
$8,629,084

Patricia A. Woertz
Chairman, President & CEO, Archer Daniels Midland Co.
$7,637,295

Paula Rosput Reynolds
Chairman, President & CEO, Safeco Corp.
$6,013,752

Mary F. Sammons
Chairman, President & CEO, Rite Aid Corp
$4,270,966

The Globe & Mail - 50 Best Workplaces in Canada 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:55:00 +0000

1 - D.I.G.L. Ltd.
2 - Environics Communications
3 - Nycomed Canada
4 - iTRANS Consulting
5 - Softchoice Corporation
6 - SaskCentral
7 - IT/NET Ottawa
8 - Trico Homes
9 - Karo Group
10 - Royal LePage Performance Realty
11 - Ames Tile & Stone
12 - eBay Customer Support Vancouver
13 - Ceridian Canada
14 - Online Business Systems
15 - Edward Jones
16 - AdFarm
17 - Grant Thornton LLP
18 - Windsor Family Credit Union
19 - Urban Systems
20 - Fuller Landau LLP
21 - Becton Dickinson Canada
22 - Keller Williams Ottawa Realty
23 - Thomson Carswell
24 - Consumer Impact Marketing (CIM)
25 - Halsall Associates Limited
26 - Coastal Pacific Xpress
27 - Protegra
28 - Sapphire Technologies
29 - T4G Limited
30 - Ernst & Young LLP
31 - Precision BioLogic
32 - Leo Burnett Company
33 - Hill & Knowlton Canada
34 - Randstad Canada
35 - Back in Motion Rehab
36 - Globalive Communications
37 - Omni Companies
38 - Banff Lodging Company
39 - Pottruff & Smith Insurance Brokers
40 - Sapient Canada
41 - TD Bank Financial Group
42 - The PEER Group
43 - WCG International Consultants
44 - Skura Corporation
45 - S.C. Johnson and Son
46 - Sandvine
47 - Parklane Homes
48 - Campbell Company of Canada
49 - High Road Communications
50 - Pinchin Environmental

Link to list here.

FastCompany - Fast 50, The World's Most Innovative Companies 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:46:00 +0000

1 - Google
2 - Apple
3 - Facebook
4 - GE
5 - Ideo
6 - Nike
7 - Nokia
8 - Alibaba
9 - Amazon
10 - Nintendo
11 - Procter & Gamble
12 - News Corp.
13 - Affymetrix
14 - Disney
15 - Samsung
16 - Method
17 - Target
18 - HP
19 - Tesco
20 - Ausra
21 - Timberland
22 - IBM
23 - Arup
24 - Anomaly
25 - Autodesk
26 - Herman Miller
27 - Realnetworks
28 - Boeing
29 - LG Electronics
30 - Omniture
31 - iRobot
32 - Wal-Mart
33 - Live Nation
34 - Intel
35 - Burton
36 - Whole Foods
37 - Cisco Systems
38 - Corning
39 - Toyota
40 - Real D
41 - Microsoft
42 - Payless
43 - Airasia
44 - Current TV
45 - Sun Microsystems
46 - BMW
47 - Tata Group
48 - AKQA
49 - Prosper
50 - Baidu

Link to list here.

Pink - Top 15 Women in Business - "The Innovators" of 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:18:00 +0000

1 - Cathy Avgiris (SVP and GM of Voice Services, Comcast Corp.)
2 - Barbara Beck (President of Europe, The Middle East and Africa, Manpower Inc.)
3 - Irene Chang Britt (VP and GM of Sauces and Beverages, Campbell USA)
4 - Laurie Brubaker (SVP of Individual Markets and Medicare, Aetna Inc.)
5 - Diane Duren (VP and GM of Marketing & Sales, Union Pacific Railroad)
6 - Julie England (Vice President, Texas Instruments Inc.)
7 - Michelle Gass (SVP of Global Strategy, Starbucks)
8 - Mona Siu-Kan Lau (Group Head of Diversity, UBS AG)
9 - Dijuana Lewis (EVP and CEO, Wellpoint Inc.)
10 - Margery Mayer (President, Scholastic Education)
11 - Seong Ohm (SVP of Sam's Club, Wal-Mart Stores)
12 - Linda Sanford (SVP, IBM)
13 - Nor Rae Spohn (SVP, Hewlett-Packard)
14 - Donna Sturgess (Global Head of Innovation, Glaxosmithkline PLC)
15 - Padmasree Warrior (Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Systems Inc.)

Link to list here.

MacLean's - Canada's Top 100 Employers 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:43:00 +0000

Consumer Services

Abebooks Inc.
Fairmont Hotels
IKEA Canada
L'Oreal Canada
MARS Canada
Procter & Gamble

Industrial and Resources

Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries
Altagas Income Trust
Boeing Canada
CAE Inc.
Cementation Canada
Enbridge
Epcor Utilities
General Dynamics Canada
Great Little Box Co.
New Flyer Industries
North Atlantic Refining
PCL Constructors
Shell Canada
Spruceland Millworks
Suncor Energy
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
Trican Well Service

Professional Services & Communications

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Ceridian Canada
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Golder Associates
Halifax Herald
Hill & Knowlton Canada
I Love Rewards
Jacques Whitford Ltd.
KPMG LLP
Marsh Canada
Mintz & Partners LLP
Patient News Publishing Inc.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd.
Sasktel
Swiss Re
Urban Systems Ltd.
Wardrop Engineering
Yellow Pages Group

Public Sector and Non-Profit

Appleby College
B.C. Safety Authority
Business Development Bank of Canada
Canada Post Corp.
Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto
Certified General Accountants Association of Canada
Durham Regional Police Service
Export Development Canada
Farm Credit Canada
Hamilton Health Sciences Corp.
Manitoba Liquor Control Commission
McGill University Health Centre
National Arts Centre
N.B. Power Holding Corp.
Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Ontario Power Generation
Royal B.C. Museum Corp.
Royal Canadian Mint
Saskatchewan Gaming Corp.
Saskatchewan Government Insurance
Simon Fraser University
Toronto Hydro Corp.
Toronto International Film Festival
University Health Network
University of Toronto
Resort Municipality of Whistler
Regional Municipality of York

Financial Services

Assiniboine Credit Union
Fidelity Canada
HSBC Bank Canada
MBNA Canada Bank
PSEU Pension Trust
Russell Investments Canada
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union

Technology

Arcis Corp.
Bioware Corp.
Bitheads
Christie Digital Systems Canada
Emergis
Hewlett-Packard Canada Co.
Keane Canada
Laurentide Controls
Microsoft Canada
Next Level Games
Progressive Solutions
Research in Motion
SAS Institute Canada
Sapient Canada
Sierra Systems Group
Sybase iAnywhere Solutions
Veer
Vivendi Games Canada

Other

Assoc. of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario
Bayer
Diagnostic Chemicals
Monsanto Canada
Nycomed Canada
Syngenta Crop Protection Canada

Link to list here.

Fortune - World's Most Admired Companies 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:33:00 +0000

1 - GE
2 - Toyota Motor
3 - Procter & Gamble
4 - Johnson & Johnson
5 - Apple
6 - Berkshire Hathaway
7 - FedEx
8 - Microsoft
9 - BMW
10 - PepsiCo
11 - IBM
12 - Target
13 - Wal-Mart Stores
14 - United Parcel Service
15 - Costco
16 - Walt Disney
17 - Singapore Airlines
18 - Exxon Mobil
19 - Boeing
20 - Nokia
21 - Citigroup
22 - Bank of America
23 - Honda Motor
24 - Coca-Cola
25 - Caterpillar
26 - Nestle
27 - Dell
28 - Toyota Industries
29 - Intel
30 - Tesco
31 - DuPont
32 - Cisco Systems
33 - Walgreen
34 - Samsung Electronics
35 - Anheuser-Busch
36 - BP
37 - Best Buy
38 - Siemens
39 - Home Depot
40 - L'Oreal
41 - Sony
42 - Motorola
43 - Hewlett-Packard
44 - Northwestern Mutual
45 - Lowe's
46 - Canon
47 - Deere
48 - HSBC Holdings
49 - Xerox
50 - Dow Chemical

Link to list here.

Fortune - 50 Most Powerful Women 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:33:00 +0000

1 - Indra Nooyi (Chairman and CEO, Pepsico)
2 - Anne Mulcahy (Chairman and CEO, Xerox)
3 - Meg Whitman (President and CEO, eBay)
4 - Angela Braly (President and CEO, Wellpoint)
5 - Irene Rosenfeld (Chairman and CEO, Kraft Foods)
6 - Pat Woertz (Chairman, CEO and President, Archer Daniels Midland)
7 - Susan Arnold (President of Global Business Units, Procter & Gamble)
8 - Oprah Winfrey (Chairman, Harpo)
9 - Andrea Jung (Chairman and CEO, Avon Products)
10 - Brenda Barnes (Chairman and CEO, Sara Lee)
11 - Ursula Burns (President, Xerox)
12 - Sallie Krawcheck (Chairman and CEO of Citi Global Wealth Management, Citigroup)
13 - Ann Livermore (EVP of Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard)
14 - Christine Poon (Vice Chairman, Johnson & Johnson)
15 - Anne Sweeney (Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks, Walt Disney)
16 - Zoe Cruz (Co-President, Morgan Stanley)
17 - Ginni Rometty (SVP of Global Business Services, IBM)
18 - Judy McGrath (Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks, Viacom)
19 - Ann Moore (Chairman and CEO, Time Inc.)
20 - Sue Decker (President, Yahoo)
21 - Susan Desmond-Hellmann (President of Product Development, Genentech)
22 - Diane Greene (CEO, VMware)
23 - Amy Brinkley (Global Risk Executive, Bank of America)
24 - Susan Ivey (Chairman, President and CEO, Reynolds American)
25 - Ellen Kullman (Executive VP, DuPont)
26 - Charlene Begley (President & CEO of GE Enterprise Solutions, GE)
27 - Heidi Miller (CEO of Treasury and Securities Services, JP Morgan Chase)
28 - Cece Sutton (EVP, Wachovia)
29 - Sheryl Sandberg (VP of Global Online Sales and Operations, Google)
30 - Abigail Johnson (President of Fidelity Employer Services, Fidelity)
31 - Carol Meyrowitz (CEO and President, TJX)
32 - Carrie Cox (EVP, Schering-Plough)
33 - Linda Dillman (EVP, Wal-Mart)
34 - Shelly Lazarus (Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy Worldwide, WPP)
35 - Mary Sammons (Chairman, President and CEO, Rite Aid)
36 - Lisa Weber (President of Individual Business, MetLife)
37 - Claire Babrowski (EVP and COO, Toys "R" Us)
38 - Joanne Maguire (EVP of Space Systems, Lockheed Martin)
39 - Colleen Goggins (Worldwide Chairman of Consumer Group, Johnson & Jonhson)
40 - Kathleen Murphy (CEO of US Wealth Management, ING)
41 - Dawn Hudson (President and CEO of Pepsi-Cola North America, PepsiCo)
42 - Liz Smith (President, Avon Products)
43 - Cathleen Black (President of Hearst Magazines, Hearst)
44 - Pam Nicholson (EVP and COO, Enterprise)
45 - Melanie Healey (Group President, Procter & Gamble)
46 - Amy Pascal (Co-Chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony)
47 - Deirdre Connelly (President of Lilly USA, Eli Lilly)
48 - Jan Fields (EVP and COO of McDonald's USA, McDonald's)
49 - Julia Stewart (Chairman and CEO, IHOP)
50 - Cathie Lesjak (EVP and CFO, Hewlett-Packard)

Link to list here.

Fortune - Most Admired Companies for People Management 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:18:00 +0000

1 - Procter & Gamble
2 - FedEx
3 - General Electric
4 - Walt Disney
5 - Texas Instruments
6 - Continental Airlines
7 - Anheuser-Busch
8 - Exxon Mobil
9 - Berkshire Hathaway
10 - United Parcel Service

Link to list here.

Fortune - Most Admired Companies for Innovation 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:16:00 +0000

1 - Apple
2 - FedEx
3 - Walt Disney
4 - Tesco
5 - Texas Instruments
6 - Procter & Gamble
7 - Continental Airlines
8 - Berkshire Hathaway
9 - Safeway
10 - Anheuser-Busch

Link to list here.

Fortune - 6 Women CEO's-to-be

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:06:00 +0000

Zoe Cruz
Co-President, Morgan Stanley

Susan Arnold
President, Global Business Units, Procter & Gamble

Ellen Kullman
EVP, Safety & Protection, Coatings & Color Technologies, Marketing & Sales, Safety & Sustainability, Pharmaceuticals, and Risk Management, DuPont

Amy Brinkley
Chief Risk Officer, Bank of America

Carrie Cox
EVP and President, Global Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough

Liz Smith
President, Avon Products

Link to list here.

Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:47:00 +0000

1 - Westjet Airlines
2 - Four Seasons Hotels
3 - Boston Pizza International
4 - Royal Bank of Canada
5 - Yellow Pages Group
6 - Maple Leaf Foods
7 - Manulife Financial
8 - Purolator Courier
9 - Tim Hortons
10 - Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group

Link to list here.

Fortune - 100 Best Companies to Work For

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:17:00 +0000

1 - Google
2 - Quicken Loans
3 - Wegmans Food Markets
4 - Edward Jones
5 - Genentech
6 - Cisco Systems
7 - Starbucks
8 - Qualcomm
9 - Goldman Sachs
10 - Methodist Hospital System
11 - Boston Consulting Group
12 - Nugget Markets
13 - Umpqua Bank
14 - Network Appliance
15 - W. L. Gore & Associates
16 - Whole Foods Market
17 - David Weekley Homes
18 - OhioHealth
19 - Arnold & Porter
20 - Container Store
21 - Principal Financial Group
22 - American Century Investments
23 - JM Family Enterprises
24 - American Fidelity Assurance
25 - Shared Technologies
26 - Stew Leonard's
27 - S.C. Johnson & Son
28 - QuikTrip
29 - SAS Institute
30 - Aflac
31 - Alston & Bird
32 - Rackspace Managed Hosting
33 - Station Casinos
34 - Recreational Equipment (REI)
35 - TDIndustries
36 - Nordstrom
37 - Johnson Financial Group
38 - Kimley-Horn & Associates
39 - Robert W. Baird
40 - Adobe Systems
41 - Bingham McCutchen
42 - MITRE
43 - Intuit
44 - Plante & Moran
45 - Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
46 - CarMax
47 - J.M. Smucker
48 - Devon Energy
49 - Griffin Hospital
50 - Camden Property Trust
51 - Paychex
52 - FactSet Research Systems
53 - Vision Service Plan
54 - CH2M HILL
55 - Perkins Coie
56 - Scripps Health
57 - Ernst & Young
58 - Scottrade
59 - Mayo Clinic
60 - Alcon Laboratories
61 - Chesapeake Energy
62 - American Express
63 - King's Daughters Medical Center
64 - EOG Resources
65 - Russell Investments
66 - Nixon Peabody
67 - Valero Energy
68 - eBay
69 - General Mills
70 - Mattel
71 - KPMG
72 - Marriott International
73 - David & Evans Associates
74 - Granite Construction
75 - Southern Ohio Medical Center
76 - Arkansas Children's Hospital
77 - PCL Construction
78 - Navy Federal Credit Union
79 - National Instruments
80 - Healthways
81 - Booz Allen Hamilton
82 - Nike
83 - AstraZeneca
84 - Stanley
85 - Lehigh Valley Hospital & Health Network
86 - Microsoft
87 - Yahoo
88 - Four Seasons Hotels
89 - Bright Horizons Family Solutions
90 - PricewaterhouseCoopers
91 - Publix Supermarkets
92 - Milliken
93 - Erickson Retirement Communities
94 - Baptist Health South Florida
95 - Deloitte & Touche USA
96 - Herman Miller
97 - FedEx
98 - Sherwin Williams
99 - SRA International
100 - Texas Instruments

Link to list here.

Fortune - Top 10 Blue Ribbon Companies 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:10:00 +0000

1 - Microsoft
2 - Procter & Gamble
3 - Apple
4 - Cisco Systems
5 - Citigroup
6 - Eli Lilly
7 - General Electric
8 - IBM
9 - Intel
10 - Valero Energy

Link to list here.

Fortune - Top Companies for Leaders 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:54:00 +0000

1 - General Electric
2 - Procter & Gamble
3 - Nokia
4 - Hindustan Unilever
5 - Capital One Financial
6 - General Mills
7 - McKinsey
8 - IBM
9 - BBVA
10 - Infosys Technologies

Link to the list here.

Fortune - Women to Watch

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:20:00 +0000

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

Link to the list here.

Fortune - Most Powerful Women in International Business 2005

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:10:00 +0000

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

Link to the list here.

Fortune - Most Powerful Women in Business 2005

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:09:00 +0000

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

Link to the list here.

The Economist - Top thinkers' top books

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:50:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:49:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:47:00 +0000

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

Link to the list here.

Fortune - 2005 BLUE-RIBBON COMPANIES

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:42:00 +0000

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...

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:38:00 +0000

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...

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:37:00 +0000

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...

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:36:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (kyle...) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:33:00 +0000

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

Link to the list here.