The World’s Largest Public Companies 2019

Viewed in Forbes. Forbes this month completed its 17th annual Global 2000 list, which ranks the world’s largest publicly-traded corporations. Among the findings: The United States continues to lead the world as the headquarters for these large companies;  575 of the 2000 are based there. China comes in a fairly distant second with 309 and… More

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Amazon’s Priorities Over the Years

Viewed in Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg, who has partnered with us on several corporate research projects, teamed up with Harvard Business School researcher Tricia Gregg to analyze, with the aid of two technical tools (NVivo 12 Pro and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)), Amazon’s annual letters to shareholders over… More

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Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Letter to Shareholders

Viewed in Berkshire Hathaway.   Berkshire Hathaway Chairman of the Board Warren Buffet’s annual letters to shareholders have become one of Wall Street’s most broadly-reported communications, important not just for what they say about the year gone by but equally important about what it says about the investment and macroeconomic trends likely to move the… More

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