USAA has topped Computerworld Magazine’s “100 Best Places to Work in Technology” study. Following up in second and third place, respectively, are Booz Allen Hamilton and JM Family.
The list is determined through a comprehensive questionnaire about company perks spanning categories such as benefits, diversity, career development, training and retention.
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China has returned to the top of this year’s GRDI for the first time since 2002, according to the Global Retail Development Index study published by A.T. Kearney. Kuwait and India trail in second and third, respectively.
The GRDI ranks 30 emerging countries on the urgency for retailers to enter the country and helps retailers prioritize [...]
Venable LLP has won the Advertising category of the 2010 edition of “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Among the other firms to pick up honors were Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (Corporate / M&A category), Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Investment funds) and Fish & Richardson (Intellectual Property and International Trade Commission practices).
Widely considered [...]
New Zealand is the world’s most peaceful nation, according to the latest edition of the Global Peace Index, a ranking of the most peaceful nations of the world compiled by Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). Iceland and Japan occupy second and third place, respectively.
Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the scale, Iraq earned the [...]
Britain has retained the top spot as the most popular European location for foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2009, with a total of 678 FDI projects. France, Germany and Spain follow up in second, third and fourth place, respectively.
In the case of Spain, the country has suffered a very deep recession and now faces near [...]
Dell leads the way in providing business opportunities for minority and woman-owned businesses, according to DiversityBusiness.com’s annual ranking of U.S. companies’ multicultural policies. AT & T Inc. and The Coca-Cola Company trail in second and third place, respectively.
The list represents more than 600,000 diversity-owned (women, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Native American, and other multicultural groups) [...]
PetroChina Company Limited has taken the top spot in the Financial Times‘ list of the world’s Top 500 highest-valued companies, marking the first time that a Chinese firm has topped the rankings. Last year PetroChina was second placed after Exxon Mobil, which slipped one notch in this year’s rankings. Microsoft came in third this year, [...]
Brazilian petrol giant Petrobras is the largest company in Latin America, with total sales of $104,933m, according to Latin Business Chronicle’s latest ranking of the 500 largest companies in Latin America. The Top 5 of the list is rounded out by the Mexican petrol company Pemex ($83.4m) in second, followed by the Spanish telecom firm [...]
Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world’s best quality of life, according to the Mercer 2010 Quality of Living Survey. Zurich and Geneva follow up in second and third position, respectively, while Vancouver and Auckland remain joint fourth in the rankings. Barcelona and Madrid also appear in the top 50 list, [...]
At the top of this year’s World Competitiveness scoreboard is Singapore, moving up two places from last year’s position. Hong Kong remained in 2nd place while last year’s leader, the United States, dropped to 3rd. Spain improved on last year’s position, moving up from 39th to 36th.
The list, which ranks the world’s 58 leading economic [...]
