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 [...]
With a total compensation package of $141.36 million, Mr H Lawrence Culp Jr, the chief of the diversified manufacturing and technology firm Danaher, is the highest paid CEO of the 500 biggest American companies, according to Forbes’ latest survey. Following up in second and third place, respectively, are Lawrence J Ellison, CEO of Oracle, and [...]
Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s largest retailer, has reclaimed the top spot from Exxon Mobil in the Fortune 500 ranking of biggest US companies. Chevron remains in third spot.
The firms surveyed suffered an average fall in sales in 2009 of 8.7 percent, largely due to the severe recession. The banks JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank [...]
Bed Bath & Beyond has topped this year’s edition of “The 100 Most Trustworthy Companies,” an annual study published by Forbes magazine based on a ranking of corporate accounting, governance and management practices by Audit Integrity, an independent financial and governance review organization.
Audit Integrity analyzes 12,000 companies listed on American stock exchanges and assigns each [...]
Lumber Liquidators has topped the list of “America’s 200 Best Small Companies” published by Forbes magazine. It is trailed by Allegiant Travel, in second place, and Quality Systems, in third.
To qualify for the Forbes list of the 200 Best Small Companies in America, candidates must have an annual revenue of between $5 million and $750 [...]
Leading IT company Hewlett-Packard took top spot in Newsweek’s inaugural Green Rankings of the 500 largest U.S. companies. They were followed by Dell and Johnson & Johnson in second and third place, respectively.
Companies were ranked based on their actual environmental performance, policies, and reputation as measured by leading environmental researchers KLD Research & Analytics, Trucost, [...]
Vextec is ranked number one on the Forbes’ annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies. Kerosene and a Match, a technology company, took second position and iKnowWare, a software services company, third.
The search for “America’s Most Promising Companies” began with Forbes teaming up with The Venture Alliance. Prospective companies were evaluated according to the size [...]
Synopsis
The Smartest Guys in the Room is fundamentally a human drama — of people drunk on their own success, people so ambitious, so certain of their own brilliance, so fueled by greed and hubris that they believed they could fool the world. The book explores the motives, thoughts, and secret fears of a fascinating array [...]
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Forbes magazine has put together its annual list of America’s most stressful cities, which has been topped for the second consecutive year by Chicago. A combination of crowding, poor air quality, a high unemployment rate (11%) and free-falling home values have created a cocktail of constant worry affecting many in the Windy City.
Los Angeles, [...]
Harvard University and Princeton University once again topped the annual ranking of U.S. universities published by U.S. News and World Report magazine. The two Ivy League schools shared the top spot, just above Yale University, in third place.
U.S. News and World Report ranks colleges using a variety of factors including a poll of college administrators [...]
