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75 Best Business Blogs of 2009

Gr8List — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:48:30 +0000

What defined business in 2009? Bankers and bailouts, for one. The proliferation of social media. A radical shift in the ways we find and accept jobs. A redefinition of the real estate, credit, and media markets. In a word, 2009 was full of fluctuations. And nobody covered, commented on, and analyzed them better than the 75 blogs on BusinessPundit.com’s list.

ACCOUNTING

1. re: The Auditors
Covers the business of the Big 4 accounting firms. Essential updates on accounting industry regulation, auditing, strategy, and more. High-quality independent journalism and a wide scope of corporate accounting issues make re: The Auditors an outstanding resource.

2. CPA Success
Written by the Maryland Association of CPAs, the blog helps accountants succeed in their careers. Chock full of useful tips, news, analysis, and even accountant humor.

ADVERTISING

3. AdvertisingAge
Advertising Age’s prolific blog covers ad industry news, campaigns, and commentary. Digest it daily to stay up on the ad world.

4. AdFreak
Another magazine-sponsored blog, this time from AdWeek. The bloggers present ad images and clips on each post, followed by a background and commentary. They have a penchant for finding really interesting content, about ads, companies, and people in the industry.

BUSINESS: GENERAL

5. The Atlantic Business Channel
News and current events coverage related to business, the economy, and government. The bloggers offer good, comprehensible analysis and commentary on daily events.

6. Stanley Bing’s Blog
Stanley Bing is a writing legend. He says it like it is—and sometimes it’s damn funny. Don’t miss his blog.

BUSINESS LAW

7. The Conglomerate
Five law professors weigh in on law, business, education, and a variety of other topics. Their expert analysis on business law is not only helpful for understanding events from a legal perspective, but also very readable.

8. Corporate Governance
In the Harvard Law School’s corporate governance and financial regulation blog, more than 100 experts talk about regulation, strategy, M&A, governance, and more. Get the latest on such legal topics from the leading minds in the industry.

BUSINESS MEDIA POLICE

9. Beat the Press
Economist Dean Baker debunks economics media claims on a daily basis. His posts are short and easy for non-economists to understand. The fact that he has so much to debunk makes this an essential media supplement.

10. Brad DeLong
This Berkeley economics professor provides deep-level understanding on what’s behind modern debates, media claims, and claims politicians make. It’s a good place to find insight and understanding on today’s debates.

CAREER

11. The Career Doctor Blog
A useful Q&A/advice column covering a variety of career-related topics. Chances are, a few of them affect you. The Career Doctor offers cogent, useful advice for people facing the gamut of career concerns.

12. Brazen Careerist
Penelope Trunk’s unique, brilliant, and direct commentary on both her career and personal life make this blog a classic. You’ll react to something in her blog, guaranteed.

CONSUMER ISSUES

13. Consumerist
The definitive source on customer service, how-tos, shopping, investigations, any other consumer-rights issues.

ECONOMICS

14. Econlog
Economists Arnold Kling, Bryan Caplan, and David Henderson comment on a wide range of subjects, from finance to history. They get readers to think about how economics affects each topic.

15. Marginal Revolution
Economists Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen talk economics, markets, trends, and about other economists. A good place to read about current news from an economics perspective.

16. The Becker-Posner Blog
Nobel laureate and University of Chicago economist Gary Becker and US Court of Appeals judge Richard Posner analyze the current economic situations and national policies. These two heavyweights offer an unparalleled perspective on current policies and economic events.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

17. Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
Full of tips, discussion, videos, and other resources for new entrepreneurs. TPE sets the standard for informing and supporting its venture-hungry readers.

18. The Entrepreneurial Mind
Professor, entrepreneur, and consultant Jeff Cornwall has a birds-eye approach to entrepreneurship. Catch up on issues, statistics, findings, and policy relevant to entrepreneurs here.

GREEN BUSINESS

19. Triple Pundit
Triple Pundit covers news, commentary, and analysis about the triple bottom line, which has to do with sustainable business and the environment. Covers a range of relevant issues, from what companies are greenest, to new products, to foreign affairs. Consistently insightful and interesting.

20. EcoGeek
EcoGeek covers the space where technology meets nature. And tech innovations help make a more environmentally-friendly economy. This blog is a useful resource for keeping abreast with green developments that might affect your industry and business.

FINANCE: GENERAL

21. The Big Picture
Author, financial commentator, speaker, and businessman Barry Ritholz and others share brief, informative daily commentary on finance and the economy. Written clearly enough for anyone to understand, but with unique, informed insights.

22. Naked Capitalism
A variety of contributors, some from other prominent finance blogs, make Naked Capitalism a one-stop shop for current events and in-depth analysis relating to events in the financial world, most of them having to do with the government and policy.

23. Zero Hedge
One of the ultimate insider finance blogs. Zero Hedge regularly shares the financial news that the mainstream media is too slow (or involved with outside corporate forces) to catch. Written anonymously and in the spirit of informational freedom, Zero Hedge is a must-read for anyone interested in raw truth. Note that some information isn’t for financial novices.

24. Calculated Risk
An excellent place to get your daily smart finance news commentary fix. Concise posts, good links, smart commentary make this a finance blog classic.

FINANCE: LINK BLOGS

25. Real Clear Markets
Nicely laid out information on finance, economics, and business, largely covering good content from the mainstream media. Easy to get good articles, fast.

FINANCIAL CRISIS

26. Credit Writedowns
This excellent blog evolved into something even better in 2009. Edward Harrison and other bloggers cover finance and economics in informative daily posts. Refreshingly, they don’t neglect the foreign sector. Their credit crisis timeline is a unique and useful resource. This year, their compilation of healthcare links is another excellent place to figure out what’s going on.

27. Baseline Scenario
Written by economists, entrepreneurs, consultants, and financial experts—all in three talented people—The Baseline Scenario comments on today’s financial crisis issues, from the national debt to healthcare. They use evidence and sound reasoning to comment on topics of the day.

28. Financial Armageddon
As the blog’s name suggests, this isn’t an optimist’s view on the financial crisis, or how it is being handled. But author and blogger Michael Panzner cuts through spin to cover the American situation in all its hardship, social, economic, and financial.

FRANCHISING

29. The Franchise King
This blog shares news, contests, commentary, and tips for franchisers. His posts are consistently short, interesting, and relevant.

FREELANCING

30. Freelance Switch
Chock full of useful tips for freelancers, this blog speaks to workers who do it themselves. Bonus: Comics, contests, and anecdotes.

GENERATIONAL

31. GEN Y

Young Successful Entrepreneur
This entrepreneurially-focused blog, written by Gen-Yer Jun Loayza, describes one young entrepreneur’s journey from startup to success. Loayza, a talented writer, offers tips, stories, and useful details from his own experiences.

32. GEN X

Generation X Finance
This useful blog covers financial issues that apply to Gen Xers. Focused on topics like establishing a career, building wealth, and getting out of debt. Generation X Finance is full of useful tips, analysis, and commentary.

33. BABY BOOMER

The Boomer Blog
Though it’s focused on a wider variety of topics than just business, the Boomer Blog covers marketing, retirement, finances, small business, and economy-related issues relevant to the age group. Its Daily Digest, which covers news that affects boomers, is also a very useful resource.

HUMAN RESOURCES

34. Gautam Ghosh
HR consultant and social media strategist Gautam Ghosh offers interesting comments on people, organizations, and using social media in an HR content in this diverse, fascinating blog.

35. Evil HR Lady
Quite simply the best, most blunt HR Q&A out there.

INTERNATIONAL

36. International Business—General

Global Edge
Two dozen contributors cover both international and country-specific business/economic issues. Their unique reports cover everything from Tehran’s first hypermarket to the fine art industry as a global economic indicator. An excellent place to catch up on general business happenings across the globe.

37. Africa

Timbuktu Chronicles

Emeka Okafor’s incredible range of business experiences include starting companies, co-running a food/beverage company, managing a PE fund, and directing the 2007 TED global conference in Tanzania. In Timbuktu Chronicles, he covers entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainability, technology, and more. His inclusion of individual people’s stories and entrepreneurial ventures lets you know the African business world through individual stories. A valuable blog.

38. EU

A Fistful of Euros
Commentary on economic, business, and current news in the EU. 15 authors cover both individual countries and EU-wide news, as well as commentary on more remote countries, like the US.

39. Middle East (specifically the UAE)

Emirates Economist
News, links, and analysis about the UAE economy. The perfect English-language destination to get your Gulf news fix.

40. China

China Briefing
This blog offers China-related business news with professional, magazine-quality reportage. Its sister publications, Vietnam briefing and India briefing, are also worth reading.

41. Latin America
For Latin America, we came up with a tie. The first blog, Latin Americanist, isn’t quite as business/economy-focused as we’d like for the purposes of this list. The second, Double Handshake, focuses only on Latin America-China relations. Both, however, are excellent.

Latin Americanist

Nine contributors cover business, politics, and culture in Latin America. Coverage is consistently good, as are the links to current news. An ideal place to load up on Latin America, in English.

Double Handshake
Covers news and business related to the China-Latin America relationship in a succinct, relevant, and entertaining way.

42. India

WATBlog
Web, advertising, mobile, technology, funding, startups…WATblog covers a substantial portion of India’s business world. How does it do so? With news, reviews, interviews, tools, and features. It’s a satisfying and readable mix.

43. Australia/NZ

The Australian Small Business Blog
Author and small business expert Dr. Greg Chapman’s useful, concise posts help small business owners market, strategize, grow, and manage their small business. An excellent digest to consume a few times a week.

INVESTIGATIVE

44. Deep Capture
The people behind Deep Capture want to expose how regulators, politicians, the media, and intellectuals have been influenced by other powerful people and institutions. That translates to posts with topics like SEC complicity in naked short selling, what hedge funds are manipulating markets and how, and the false media story around the death of Bear Stearns. Get behind the lies—or just find a different version of the stories you read.

INVESTING

45. Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha isn’t so much a blog as a financial website containing a bunch of blogs, but it’s so good that we had to include it. It’s a one-stop shop for stock market analysis, opinion, and commentary. They publish around 250 fresh articles per day, so whether you’re interested in commodities or day trading, you’ll be sated.

46. Abnormal Returns
Excellent daily investing and finance links, many to quality blogs and new media sites. You’re bound to find something interesting and perhaps lesser-known through a daily peek at the links here. Also includes commentary on current investment trends and events.

MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

47. Management Craft
Consultant and management expert Lisa Haneberg shares perspective and advice on issues that managers face. Her posts, which appear several times a month, should be read slowly and savored.

48. Leadership Now
Leadership Now uses book reviews, articles, links, research summaries, multimedia, and more to give you a complete leadership resource. Its material helps you establish and solidify the mentality that you need to lead effectively.

49. The Harvard Business Review Blogs
Maybe this one is so obvious that it doesn’t need to be on this list. Then again, it’s so good that it should be on any list. The folks at the Harvard Business Review provide timely, crucial information and analysis on issues facing all managers and leaders.

MARKETING

50. Duct Tape Marketing
Geared at the small business crowd, this essential marketing resource offers news, tools, tips, and commentary relevant to SMB. The site also has an excellent, books, and other resources.

51. Seth’s Blog
Seth Godin is a guru of sorts. His frequent, to-the-point insights make you both ponder your own outlook, then improve. Utterly essential.

52. eConsultancy Blog
The eConsultancy blog offers useful tips, information on trends, and news related to the digital marketing space. Especially useful for digital marketing and ecommerce professionals.

53. Copyblogger
The go-to resource for copywriting, content marketing, and successfully building an online presence. Follow Copyblogger regularly to increase your skillset in these areas.

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

54. DealBook
The New York Times’ DealBook consistently has superior details, background, and reports on the M&A space. Not that this should be your only resource, but it’s definitely one of the best.

PERSONAL FINANCE

55. Get Rich Slowly
GRS helps you save money, time, and headaches by compiling tips, how-tos, lists, and anecdotes. The blog is not only a quality daily digest, but an excellent resource on topics ranging from savings accounts to insurance.

56. The Simple Dollar
As its name suggests, the Simple Dollar offers simple ways to manage your personal finances. Blogger Trent Hamm, after having his own financial meltdown, created this useful resource to explain and explore how to simplify your personal finances. Book reviews, an advice column, and link posts round out the content.

PHARMA/HEALTH

57. Pharmalot
Written by longtime pharma journalist Ed Silverman, Pharmalot covers pharma news, trends, and issues. It’s really well-written, and could be considered a niche newspaper. A quality resource.

58. Café Pharma
Daily links to news relevant to those in the pharmaceutical business, especially salespeople. You’ll find a large selection of news headlines, most from the mainstream media, that will keep you up to date with the pharma biz.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

59. PR 2.0
PR agency principal Brian Solis writes about PR and social media news, trends, and events. His posts are short, and he updates frequently, making this a good blog to read in tasty bites.

60. Naked PR
Blogger Jennifer Mattern calls Naked PR a “spin-free zone…dedicated to cutting through the crap in online public relations…issues.” That’s just what she does, and she does it well. Her bluntness refreshes and informs.

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

61. The Cranky Product Manager
Entertaining and well-written, The Cranky Product Mananger documents the experiences of a fictional product management professional at a software company named DysfunctoSoft. For a fictional story, CPM’s posts sound mighty real, but put that aside for now. Her frank, honest, snarky posts make for a fun read, whether you’re a product manager or not.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

62. Fear No Project
Bruce McGraw combines observations, experiences, and analysis to address issues that project managers face. It’s the kind of blog with in-depth posts that appear several times a month. Savor and absorb his posts—they’re good.

REAL ESTATE

63. Bigger Pockets
Covers real estate news, investment, marketing, sales, technology, and landlord issues. Useful articles both for seasoned pros and beginners. The blog also has a good networking component, via forums, groups, bulletins, and a resource.

64. Altos Research
Want to know the current state of the real estate market? Catch it at Altos Research’s blog, which relays real-time real estate data. Charts and reports give you hard data to back up your next move.

SALES

65. Score More Sales
Sales consultant, author, and coach Lori Richardson shares sales tips and tricks in a readable, engaging blog. She weaves stories into her tips, making them more accessible.

SEO

66. Search Engine Land
This journalist-led SEO news and info site offers professional, compelling industry coverage.

SMALL BUSINESS

67. Small Business Trends
This complete small business resource offers a host of excellent tips for the SMB crowd. In addition to tips, they write book and product reviews, research roundups, host a radio show, and host forums. It’s a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs.

68. Small Business Brief
Small Business Brief “fetches” small business news, which means it provides you with useful SMB links almost every day. Scroll down to find the quality article that suits your needs. They have lists for Sales/Marketing, Finance & Legal, Website development, entrepreneurship, and management. A great place for a regular news fix.

SOCIAL MEDIA

69. Mashable
Perhaps the ultimate social media resource, Mashable covers the gamut of social media news, tips, lists, and how-tos. It’s an extensive social media resource that you should bookmark and check at least weekly.

70. Chris Brogan
Tech and social media expert Chris Brogan blogs about social media, online marketing, new technology, digital trends, ideas, and more. It’s an interesting take on social media by a highly-regarded opinion leader. He hosts good videos, too.

SPORTS BUSINESS

71. Sports Biz
Writer Darren Rovell reports on sports news from a business perspective. He covers the gamut of sports business, from endorsements to promising young players. An excellent daily read.

TECHNOLOGY/IT

72. Ars Technica
Ars Technica is a vast resource for IT pros. Its posts, which appear multiple times per day, cover hardware products, software tools, infrastructure, industry trends, security and more. The business section is an especially good place for IT managers to catch up on the latest.

73. TechCrunch
News from the hardware/software/IT space, including new products, IPOs and funding, companies, campaigns, research, people, industry news, and more. Consistently good and on top of the tech game.

VENTURE CAPITAL

74. Ventureblog
August Capital partner David Hornik updates this blog several times a month with analysis, commentary, and insights for those in the VC world.

75. A VC
Longtime New York City VC Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) covers company moves, public policy, investor behavior, media, tech, and a whole lot more. His brings insight and a human touch to all of his topics.

100 Best Global Brands 2009

Gr8List — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:51:56 +0000

Google, Amazon, and Zara are among the top gainers in BusinessWeek and Interbrand’s annual ranking of the “Best Global Brands.” UBS slipped dramatically down the list, falling 31 places to No. 72, losing 50% of its brand value. Coca-Cola remains the No. 1 brand for the ninth year in a row.

For the ninth consecutive year, BusinessWeek teamed up with Interbrand, a leading brand consultancy, to publish the ranking of the top 100 global brands by brand value. Amazon, Pepsi, Audi, Panasonic, and Campbell’s have all prospered during a challenging year for marketing executives. For the first time, the overall value of the top 100 brands has declined 4.6%, or US $55.472 billion. Seven brands, however, fell right off the list. Among the biggest: Merrill Lynch, which ranked No. 34 last year, and AIG, previously No. 54, after both required
emergency assistance from the U.S. government. ING, ranked No. 86 last year, also fell off the list after huge subprime losses. Not surprisingly, big banks and auto brands fared the worst, while food brands benefited as consumers began eating more at home. View the full list of 100 Best Global Brands on BusinessWeek.com. And check out Interbrands 34-page report…

1. Coca-Cola U.S.
2. IBM U.S.
3. Microsoft U.S.
4. GE  U.S.
5. Nokia Finland
6. McDonald’s  U.S.
7. Google U.S.
8. Toyota Japan
9. Intel U.S.
10. Disney U.S.
11. Hewlett-Packard  U.S.
12. Mercedes-Benz  Germany
13. Gillette  U.S.
14. Cisco U.S.
15. BMW  Germany
16. Louis Vuitton  France
17. Marlboro  U.S.
18. Samsung  S. Korea
20. Apple  U.S.
21. H&M  Sweden
22. American Express  U.S.
23. Pepsi  U.S.
24. Oracle  U.S.
25. Nescafe  Switzerland
26. Nike  U.S.
27. SAP  Germany
28. Ikea  Sweden
29. Sony  Japan
30. Budweiser  Belgium
31. UPS  U.S.
32. HSBC  Britain
33. Canon  Japan
34. Kellogg’s  U.S.
35. Dell  U.S.
36. Citi  U.S.
37. JPMorgan  U.S.
38. Goldman Sachs  U.S.
39. Nintendo  Japan
40. Thomson Reuters  Canada
41. Gucci  Italy
42. Philips  Netherlands
43. Amazon  U.S.
44. L’Oreal  France
45. Accenture  U.S.
46. eBay  U.S.
47. Siemens  Germany
48. Heinz  U.S.
49. Ford  U.S.
50. Zara Spain

50 Most Powerful Women in Business

Gr8List — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:58:46 +0000

Fortune Magazine’s 2009 list of America’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business highlights the women who have a “secret weapon” in the business world. Fortune ranks the women not on their salaries, but by their past successes and ability to effect change in their companies. Read the full article…

1. Indra Nooyi - PepsiCo
2. Irene Rosenfeld - Kraft Foods
3. Pat Woertz - Archer Daniels Midland
4. Angela Braly - Wellpoint
5. Andrea Jung - Avon Products
6. Oprah Winfrey - Harpo
7. Ellen Kullman - Dupont
8. Carol Bartz - Yahoo
9. Ursula Burns - Xerox
10. Brenda Barnes - Sara Lee
11. Ginni Rometty - IBM
12. Safra Catz - Oracle
13. Ann Livermore - Hewlett-Packard
14. Sheri McCoy - Johnson & Johnson
15. Melanie Healey - Procter & Gamble
16. Anne Sweeney - Walt Disney
17. Heidi Miller - J.P. Morgan Chase
18. Carol Meyrowitz - TJX
19. Colleen Goggins - Johnson & Johnson
20. Judy McGrath - Viacom
21. Ann Moore - Time Warner
22. Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook
23. Carrie Cox - Schering-Plough
24. Susan Chambers - Wal-Mart
25. Barbara Desoer - Bank of America
26. Susan Ivey - Reynolds American
27. Charlene Begley - General Electric
28. Abigail Johnson - Fidelity
29. Liz Smith - Avon Products
30. Sallie Krawcheck - Bank Of America
31. Christina Gold - Western Union
32. Jan Fields - McDonald’s
33. Sue Wagner - BlackRock
34. Pam Nicholson - Enterprise
35. Joanne Maguire - Lockheed Martin
36. Claire Babrowski - Toys “R” Us
37. Deirdre Connelly - GlaxoSmithKline
38. Gail Boudreaux - UnitedHealth
39. Meredith Whitney - Meredith Whitney Advisory Group
40. Lorrie Norrington - eBay
41. Kathleen Murphy - Fidelity
42. Cathie Lesjak - Hewlett-Packard
43. Linda Hudson - BAE Systems
44. Marissa Mayer - Google
45. Lynn Elsenhans - Sunoco
46. Cathie Black - Hearst Magazines
47. Bonnie Hammer - General Electric
48. Lauren Zalaznick - General Electric
49. Amy Pascal - Sony Pictures Entertainment
50. Maggie Wilderotter - Frontier Communications

World’s Best Companies 2009

Gr8List — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:12:39 +0000

From Japanese electronics to Spanish textiles, the companies that made this list are thriving in the recession and preparing for beyond. As the economic outlook brightens, those that have worked hard to survive the tough times of the past year are best prepared to seize new opportunities. It is these enterprises that have risen to the top of the World’s Best Companies/Global Top 40 list, compiled for BusinessWeek by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. View the full list…

1. Nintendo – Japan
2. Google – USA
3. Apple – USA
4. Doosan Heavy Industrie – South Korea
5. Hyundai Heavy Industries – South Korea
6. GDF Suez – France
7. MTN – South Africa
8. Monsanto – USA
9. Inditex – Spain
10. BHP Billiton – Australia

TechCrunch’s Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010

Gr8List — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:46:56 +0000

It’s been a long drought for IPOs, but venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs are hopeful that 2010 will be the year they rain down on the Valley once gain. Below is TechCrunch’s list of the top ten IPO candidates for 2010 in the technology industry, after conducting an informal survey of top VCs and angel investors. These are the company names whispered about the most in the Valley and other tech circles. Read the full story…

1. Facebook
2. Zynga
3. LinkedIn
4. Glam Media
5. Demand Media
6. Gilt Groupe
7. Etsy
8. Yelp
9. Tesla Motors
10. Skype

Mediaweek.com’s Top Stories of 2009

Gr8List — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:16:03 +0000

2009 was a year of great economic and media industry upheaval—and Mediaweek.com brought readers thorough, up-to-date news coverage of all the ad-supported media industries. The downturn did not spare any specific medium—and as you’ll find on this report, the 2009 Top Ten Most-Read Stories on Mediaweek.com, all media are present.

1. Exclusive: Playboy Slashes Rate Base 38%
2. OK! Looks to Cash In on Michael Jackson Death Cover
3. FoxNews.com Rockets Nearly 50% in April
4. CNN.com, Facebook Team on Live Inauguration Stream
5. Twentieth TV Shows ‘Mike and Juliet’ the Door
6. Condé Nast Folds Domino
7. Nielsen: Casual Gamers Play Less, Come Back Often
8. AMC’s The Prisoner Plots to Tunnel Under DVR Viewing
9. Letterman Extends Late Night Streak Over Conan
10. Study: Twitter Audience Does Not Have A Return Policy

The 50 Best Business Blogs

Gr8List — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:18:26 +0000

Internet blogs are taking on big corporations and winning. As the bloggerati continue to set the agenda London’s Times Online provides a list of the 50 top blogs in the following categories: Economics, Banking & Finance, Construction & Property, Engineering, Health, Industrials, Leisure, Media & Marketing, Natural Resources, Retail, Law, Transport, Technology, Telecoms, and Utilities. View the full list…

The World’s 500 Largest Corporate Employers

Gr8List — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:19:28 +0000

Giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores, with 1.8 million employees, tops the first published list of the world’s 500 largest corporate employers. Home to nearly half of the companies on the list, the United States boasts the largest employers in 13 out of 28 industries, according to the study by My Global Career, a blog-based careers site for global workers and employers seeking global-ready talent. Links to each employer’s job site are included in this free directory of companies that employ more than 45 million workers around the world. Job seekers can search the list or browse it by rank (1-500), industry, country, or company name. View the full list…

1. Wal-Mart Stores, United States – 1,800,000 employees
2. Deutsche Post, Germany – 502,545 employees
3. Siemens Group, Germany – 461,000 employees
4. McDonald’s, United States – 447,000 employees
5. Carrefour, France – 440,479 employees
6. Compass Group, United Kingdom – 410,074 employees
7. United Parcel Service, United States – 407,000 employees
8. Gazprom, Russia – 396,571 employees
9. DaimlerChrysler, Germany – 382,724 employees
10. Hitachi, Japan – 355,879 employees

List of Online Magazine Initiatives

Gr8List — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:42:09 +0000

Magazine Publishers of America is the industry association for consumer magazines. The MPA represents more than 240 domestic publishing companies with approximately 1,400 titles, from 80 international companies. They maintain a continually updated list of magazine website digital initiatives – everything from new site features, to partnerships, and redesigns, documented for the past two years. Check out the list…

Fortune 500 Business Blogs

Gr8List — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:46:50 +0000

Two sites are collecting links to Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs (active public blogs by company employees about the company and its products).

Top 10 Best Internet Acquisitions of All Time

Gr8List — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:11:38 +0000

From HipMojo.com, the ten “best” Internet acquisitions of all time. Read the full article…

1. News Corporation acquires MySpace-parent Intermix for $580M in May 2005
2. New York Times acquires About.com for $410M in February, 2005
3. Google acquires Sprinks in October 2003
4. Yahoo! acquires Overture for $1.63B in July, 2003
5. Yahoo! acquires Inktomi for $235M in December, 2002
6. AOL Time Warner acquires Advertising.com for $435M in June 2004
7. eBay acquires Paypal for $1.5B in 2002
8. Ask Jeeves acquires Interactive Search Holdings for $343M in March 2004
9. Microsoft acquires Hotmail for $400M in 1998
10. aQuantive acquires Razorfish for $160M in June 2004

43 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World

Gr8List — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:15:27 +0000

The 4 3 organi zations that received the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards for 2007 have found a b etter way to do good: They’re using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems. The Social Capitalist Awards define strong performance as a combination of both social impact and organizational effectiveness. This performance is represented by five critical components: Social Impact, Aspiration & Growth , Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability. The underlying theme is the organization’s ability to analyze tough social and organizational challenges and to craft solutions that create significant improvements over the status quo. Read the full article…

And check out the list of award winning organizations…

10 Great B2B Web Sites 2006

Gr8List — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:44:33 +0000

Each year, BtoBOnline.com provides a behind-the-scenes look at 10 b-to-b Web sites that excel at communicating with customers and prospects. These sites offer in-depth information about products, services and the company. They are easy to navigate, enabling users to find what they want quickly and efficiently. Their design is clean and embodies the corporate brand. Finally, they allow users to accomplish business-oriented tasks, whether it’s managing a project or making a purchase.

Accenture
Bank of America
Boston Scientific
CA.com
DHL.com
Gates.com
Grainger.com
Steelcase.com
Sun.com
USG.com

Adweek’s Website Hot List 2006

Gr8List — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:14:47 +0000

To determine this year’s Hot List list, Adweek evaluated sites that create content, as opposed to aggregating it. The top ten list includes four sites that rely, for the most part or in whole, on user-generated content, the biggest online trend advertisers currently face. Adweek reviewed data on approximately 400 sites from Nielsen/NetRatings AdRelevance. They looked for growth over the past six months in unique users or time spent per person, and also invited several interactive media directors and clients to weigh in, giving their thoughts on which sites they believe are doing it right. The final list mirrors what is happening on the Web: community sites mix with traditional media properties. Some of the oldest sites stand side-by-side with the newest. Download Adweek’s Web Site Hot List PDF…

1. YouTube
2. MySpace
3. The Weather Channel
4. TMZ.com
5. BusinessWeek.com
6. Heavy.com
7. MLB.com
8. Cartoon Network
9. ESPN.com
10. Facebook

The 5 Best Airports for Business Travelers

Gr8List — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:02:30 +0000

Thanks to terminal makeovers executed with business travelers in mind, layovers are becoming a less hellish experience. To find out which airports are the most business-friendly, Business 2.0 quizzed travelers, analyzed stats, and cross-checked passenger polls. Read the full story…

* Minneapolis-St. Paul International (MSP)
* Charlotte Douglas International (CLT)
* Denver International (DIA)
* San Francisco International (SFO)
* Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW)

Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies 2006

Gr8List — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:50:29 +0000

Each year, Inc. magazine produces the Inc. 500, a list of the nation’s fastest growing private companies. Learn about this year’s top 25 companies, discover success stories of some of this year’s honorees, or take the Inc. 500 quiz to test your knowledge of lists past and present…

New-Media Power List

Gr8List — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:09:41 +0000

As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Check out the list of new media moguls from WSJ.com. Categories include podcasts, amateur video, social networking, music, blogging, photography, TV and film…

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Favorite Books of Successful People

Gr8List — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:30:36 +0000

BusinessWeek Online asked over 30 prominent professors and business professionals about their favorite books, business or otherwise. The resulting list is a diverse tip sheet with something for everyone – from Kotler to Kerouac, fantasy to finance. Browse around and discover what made these books inspirational, instructive, or influential in their thinking and their careers…

The 100 Best Global Brands

Gr8List — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:25:45 +0000

Google, Starbucks, Motorola, and eBay are among this year’s top gainers in BusinessWeek’s annual ranking of The Best Global Brands. For the sixth consecutive year, BusinessWeek has teamed up with Interbrand, a leading brand consultancy, to publish a ranking of the top 100 global brands by brand value. The Best Global Brands ranking measures an elusive but crucial quality. Every company wants its brand to get bigger. The hard part is balancing what the brand already is with a vision of what it would like to be.

Brand value is calculated as the net present value of the earnings that the brand is expected to generate and secure in the future for the time frame from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006. In order to be included in the top global brands list, a brand must have a minimum brand value of $2.7 billion, achieve about one third of their earnings outside of their home country, have publicly available marketing and financial data, and have a wider public profile beyond their direct customer base.

Ad Age’s Leading National Advertisers Report

Gr8List — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:30:31 +0000

Procter & Gamble Co. rode the acquisition of Gillette Co. to become the nation’s largest advertiser in 2005, spending $4.61 billion in all forms of advertising and promotion to outdistance runner-up General Motors Corp. at $4.35 billion. The 100 Leading National Advertiser Profiles contain the details of lead marketing personnal, brands, agencies, agency contacts as well as advertising spending by media and brand, sales, earnings and more for the country’s 100 largest advertisers. Read Ad Age’s annual Leading National Advertisers Report overview and download the 103-page Leading Advertisers Profiles…

Wired’s Most Innovative Companies 2006

Gr8List — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:58:44 +0000

Wired magazine starts by looking for the basics: strategic vision, global reach, killer technology. To land a spot on their annual Wired 40 list, a business also needs the X-factor — a hunger for new ideas and an impatience to put them into practice. Such companies inevitably become trendsetters, literally: As Wired debated the list this year, six major themes flickered into view. From the rise of peer production to the end of carbon pollution, they tell us where the world is heading. These are the companies leading the way. New this year: Verizon, Lenovo, InfoSpace, and more…

Hoover’s Hottest 100 Companies

Gr8List — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:27:24 +0000

Hoovers.com contains a database of over 16.5 million companies, with comprehensive coverage of 43,000 of the world’s top business enterprises. The Hoover’s 100 is a monthly list of the companies most searched on Hoover’s.com. Derived by tracking the search requests of Hoover’s subscribers, The Hoover’s 100 provides insight on which companies are being watched most closely by corporate executives, as well as sales, marketing, and business development professionals, who represent a large portion of Hoover’s customers.

50 Business People Who Matter

Gr8List — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:17:43 +0000

Business 2.0’s goal was to identify people whose ideas, products, and business insights are changing the world we live in today – those who are reshaping our future by inventing important new technologies, exploiting emerging opportunities, or throwing their weight around in ways that are sure to make everyone else take notice. Meet the executives, entrepreneurs, and cutting-edge innovators who are setting today’s business agenda …

100 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies

Gr8List — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:05:05 +0000

Tech is back – and the sector’s fastest-growing public companies are leading the charge. Business 2.0 screened more than 2,000 tech companies that have been publicly traded on a U.S. stock exchange for at least three years, have a market capitalization of at least $50 million, and have had positive operating cash flow over the past 12 months. The resulting list was ranked using four financial criteria: growth in revenue, profit, and operating cash flow during the past three years, and the 12-month stock return as of Dec. 31, 2005. Cash flow growth counts for 40% of a company’s ranking. Each of the other criteria counts for 20%. View the full list…

The Fastest-Growing New Businesses in America

Gr8List — Mon, 22 May 2006 23:41:38 +0000

Entrepreneur and PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 12th annual Hot 100 companies are leading the pack in fast growth, big sales and smart business. What do these companies have in common? They’re all less than five years old; their founders still run the show; they have fewer than 1,000 employees; and their annual sales exceed $1 million.

25 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World

Gr8List — Mon, 15 May 2006 01:13:18 +0000

The Fast Company / Monitor Group 2006 Social Capitalist Award winner s include 25 entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems with creativity, i ngenuity, and passion. These amazing organizations have found a better way to do good: They’re using the disciplin es of the corporate world to tackle daunting s ocial problems.

The Top 100 Digital Content Industry Companies

Gr8List — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:55:49 +0000

The EContent 100 list offers a look at top companies in the digital content industry that show how far econtent reaches into our work and our lives and how the tools to make the most of it matter more than ever. This year witnessed a number of promising newcomers joining the fray as well as significant signs of maturity in leveraging XML, RSS, Open Source, and mobility, to name but a few. Blogs are growing up out of their origins as digital diaries to serve as full-fledged media outlets, whether written by “everyman”, media professionals, or CEOs. Wikis made inroads into the enterprise as well.

The Next Internet 25

Gr8List — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:31:51 +0000

A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard. The Next Net creates endless possibilities for entrepreneurs and established players alike to take advantage of the Web’s new power. They are building on the success of early standard-bearers — Flickr, MySpace, Wikipedia — but also moving beyond those pioneers in creative and fascinating ways. View the 25 companies in five categories Business 2.0 chose, whose approaches help illuminate where the Web is headed and where the opportunities lie…

The 2006 FORTUNE 500 list

Gr8List — Thu, 04 May 2006 18:13:16 +0000

The FORTUNE 500 list is an annual ranking of America’s largest corporations by revenues. Its companies employ more than 24 million people, about 16% of working Americans. This year, FORTUNE 500 companies overall brought in a record $9.1 trillion in revenues and $610 billion in profits. And while the economy as a whole grew 3.5% last year, FORTUNE 500 companies did much better, increasing their revenues by a healthy 15.4%. See the full list, including detailed company profiles and contact information…

50 Leaders, Innovators & Technology Pioneers

Gr8List — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:58:18 +0000

The Fast 50 is Fast Company magazine’s worldwide search for ordinary people doing extraordinary things. 50 people in business, technology, government, the arts, and beyond who are writing the history of the next 10 years.

Inc.’s 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Gr8List — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:46:53 +0000

Each year, Inc. magazine produces the Inc. 500, a list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Click here for all 500 profiles, and video interviews with Inc. 500 CEOs of 2005.

ClickZ Internet Trends & Statistics

Gr8List — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:45:41 +0000

A Web marketer’s guide to Internet statistics, Internet marketing demographics, Internet advertising research, e-commerce marketing trends, Web traffic patterns, seasonal sales data and more.

Wired’s Most Innovative Companies 2005

Gr8List — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:34:43 +0000

They’re masters of technology and innovation. They’re global thinkers driven by strategic vision. They’re The Wired 40. Meet the new masters of technology and innovation. Including: GE, JetBlue, Salesforce.com, and more…

America’s Most Admired Companies 2006

Gr8List — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:26:38 +0000

Which companies have the best reputations?. FORTUNE’s survey asked businesspeople to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry. Scoring criteria included: Innovation, employee talent, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness, long-term investment, and quality of products/services.

Top 100 Media Company Stocks

Gr8List — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:00:52 +0000

The Northwestern University Media Management Center and MediaInfoCenter.org offer real-time listings of the top 100 U.S. media stocks as well as an index of their performance. Click on ‘Index Components’ to see the full list.

MarketingSherpa’s 10 Best Blogs for 2005

Gr8List — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:15:53 +0000

The Best 10 Blogs of 2005 on the topics of marketing, advertising, and public relations. In April 2005, MarketingSherpa asked their 173,000 readers (mainly marketing execs at medium-large businesses and the agencies who serve them) to nominate their favorite blogs on the subjects of marketing, advertising, and PR.

Top 50 Online Retailing Websites for 2006

Gr8List — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:17:13 +0000

Internet Retailer magazine’s list of Top 50 online retailing websites range in size from Amazon.com, which continues to execute a brilliant online strategy while growing rapidly, to such smaller sites as Musicnotes.com, which uses in-house developed software to create a unique and exciting way to shop for sheet music, and TheFruitCompany.com, a third-generation, family-owned orchard in Oregon that uses the web to create a national market for its high-quality fruits.

These sites reflect the best of what retailers can do online,” says Kurt T. Peters, editor of Internet Retailer. “Retailers in our Top 50 aren’t necessarily the biggest, the most profitable or the best known—they are the sites that innovate to take online retailing to the next level.”

10 Great B2B Web Sites 2005

Gr8List — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:06:21 +0000

BtoB’s annual behind-the-scenes look at some of the best business Web sites out there. Today’s great B2B Web sites present detailed product and company information in an easy-to-navigate format. They have an uncluttered design that embodies the corporate brand, ditching the bells and whistles unless the bells and whistles improve the customer experience. They engage users in a two-way conversation rather than a one-sided sales pitch. In short, they make customers’ lives easier…

BusinessWeek’s Top 50 Performing Companies of 2005

Gr8List — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:18:00 +0000

BusinessWeek uses 10 performance metrics, starting with sales and earnings growth. They tally both for the most recent 12-month and three-year periods, to reward companies that can prosper over time. As a gauge of how well management deploys its resources, BW factors in net profit margins and return on equity. And finally they account for the market’s view, by measuring total shareholder returns for one- and three-year periods.

BusinessWeek also weighs the results for sales volume, because it’s harder for large companies to post impressive revenue- and profit-growth figures. And BW factors in the debt-to-capital ratio, to recognize clean balance sheets. That also makes it harder for corporations to qualify with growth that’s primarily the result of debt-laden acquisitions.