IESE Professor Xavier Vives is among the “Top Ten Most Cited Spanish Social Scientists”, according to a survey conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information. The top-ranked Spanish social scientist is sociologist Manuel Castells. Sociologist and political scientist Juan J. Linz occupies second place in the ranking and economist Andreu Mas-Colell, third.
The ranking of the [...]
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Leo Messi is the world’s biggest football celebrity, according to a new report on the media value of football in 2009/10 conducted by the University of Navarra’s ESI research group. Messi, who picked up a total of 21.6 media value points, is trailed in second place by Cristiano Ronaldo, with 19.6 points, and the [...]
Microsoft has knocked Google off its top spot in the 2010 Business Superbrands survey, with the latter slipping four places to 5th. Rolls-Royce Group retained its position at second while BlackBerry shot up the ranking (from last year’s 43rd) to take third place.
In the annual survey compiled by The Centre for Brand Analysis (TCBA), brands [...]
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Tokyo has become the world’s most expensive office location, according to the Office Space Across the World 2010 report conducted by Cushman & Wakefield. Meanwhile, London’s West End moved from third to second place in the ranking and Hong Kong fell from first to third.
The annual study compares office occupancy costs in 132 key locations [...]
Walmart, Google and Coca-Cola are the world’s most valuable brands according to BrandFinance® Global 500. Also of note is the fact that Santander has made huge leaps in terms of brand value, shooting up the ranking from 41st to 12th position in just one year.
The report describes the relative equity of the 500 top global [...]
Facebook has moved up 15 places to top this year’s edition of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World. Amazon and Apple took second and third place, respectively.
The survey recognizes creative models and progressive cultures – the many forms of innovation that exist across the business landscape – in addition to revenue growth [...]
Subway tops this year’s ranking of the 300 leading franchises conducted by Dun & Bradstreet’s (D&B) AllBusiness.com editors. Liberty Tax Service, in second place, and Jazzercise, in third, round out the top three.
According to AllBusiness.com, the winners were determined by examining seven criteria: franchise unit growth rate, financial strength, system size, years in business, years [...]
IBM (Technology), Intel Corp (Technology) and HSBC Holdings (Banks) top this year’s edition of the Covalence Ethical Ranking which covers 581 multinationals representing 18 different sectors.
The ranking measures qualitative data on 45 criteria including labor standards, waste management, social utility and human rights policy. And because it is a reputation index, the Covalence survey also [...]
General Electric Company (US) tops this year’s edition of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World 2010 index, published by CSR magazine Corporate Knights. PG & E Corp. and Dutch company Tnt Nv. take second and third spot, respectively. Iberdrola is the only Spanish company to appear in the index.
This widely-respected international ranking [...]
PetroChina heads this year’s edition of the PFC Energy 50 Ranking of the World’s Top Energy Companies with a market capitalization of $353.1 billion, 9 percent larger than that of ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil and BHP Billiton took second and third place, respectively.
The listing includes companies from nine sectors: International Oil Companies; National Oil Companies; Exploration & [...]
