Apple tops the list in the annual Management Top 250 ranking of America’s best-run companies, displacing Microsoft at No. 1.
Ray A. Smith for The Wall Street Journal:
The Management Top 250 ranking compares companies using the late management guru Peter Drucker’s principles to identify the most effectively managed businesses. This year, 842 companies were graded in five categories (customer satisfaction, innovation, social responsibility, employee engagement and development, and financial strength) based on 35 indicators supplied by third-party data providers. The statistical model that produces the ranking was created by researchers at Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker Institute. Bendable Labs, a private firm, works with Drucker to perform the calculations and interpret them.
Companies that are in the top 15% in each of the components of the ranking are designated “all-stars,” and those that score in the bottom 25% in any category are tagged with “red flags.”
Apple not only nabbed the No. 1 spot on the list but also managed to emerge as the lone all-star in this year’s ranking. This marks the first time the list has had just one all-star; typically, there are about half a dozen. Some other companies, including Nvidia and Microsoft, came close this year, missing this designation by a hair.
MacDailyNews Take: The Top 10:
- Apple
- Nvidia
- Microsoft
- Intel
- Mastercard
- Johnson & Johnson
- Procter & Gamble
- Alphabet
- Adobe
- Philip Morris International
Beleaguered Intel at No.4? Pfft! Clearly the list uses laughably lagging and/or just plain bad data; in other words: it’s crap (but, congrats, Apple, for what it’s worth)!
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