Inc (September Issue)
The Inc. 5000 is “our annual ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies…. Only this year, the road ahead looks very different. Picture K2, only with more avalanches and less oxygen.” But their response may surprise. “At presstime, only 11 percent had cut staff since March, while 47 percent were landing talent let loose by others.” Though there has been belt tightening, “their eyes got bigger. More than 40 percent of honorees say current conditions make it more important than ever to scale quickly. Just 10 percent feel it would be best to slow down.”
Tags: Avalanches, Fastest-growing, Inc. 5000, K2, Private, Ranking, Scale quickly, Slow down, Staff, Talent, Tightening
Wall Street Journal (November 16)
“Google became the world’s go-to source of information by ranking billions of links from millions of sources. Now, for many queries, the internet giant is presenting itself as the authority on truth by promoting a single search result as the answer.” Many of the results, Google selects, however, “are contentious, improbable or laughably incorrect.”
Tags: Authority, Contentious, Go-to source, Google, Improbable, Incorrect, Laughable, Queries, Ranking, Truth
Institutional Investor (May Issue)
“When it comes to providing the direction that money managers find most helpful, they say, Mizuho and Nomura outpace the competition. These firms share top honors on the 2014 All-Japan Research Team, Institutional Investor’s 21st annual ranking of the country’s best sell-side analysts, by capturing 24 team positions each.”
Tags: Analysts, Competition, Direction, Honors, Japan, Mizuho, Money managers, Nomura, Ranking, Research, Sell-side
Bloomberg (January 22, 2014)
Bloomberg released its annual rankings of the best countries for business in 2013 and these were 1. Hong Kong, 2. Canada, 3. U.S., 4. Singapore, 5. Australia, 6. Germany, 7. United Kingdom, 8. Netherlands, 9. Spain and 10. Sweden. Japan slid from #3 in 2012 to #12, but still finished ahead of South Korea (#13) and China (#28).
Tags: Australia, Business, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands, Ranking, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, U.S., UK
