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Best Global Brands
These 100 brands are among the world's most recognized—and most valuable
Best Places to Launch a Career
We canvassed career-services directors, employers, and students to rank the best companies for recent graduates
BusinessWeek 50
Our picks of the top-performing companies from the S&P 500. Plus, regional rankings for Asia and Europe:
Asia's BusinessWeek 50
Europe's BusinessWeek 50
Customer Service Champs
Companies that excel at pleasing customers, based on J.D. Power & Associates customer satisfaction data and our own reader survey
Hot Growth 100
From young, upstart companies to those that have been around for centuries: Plus, regional rankings of top-performing small businesses in Asia and Europe:
Asia's Hot Growth 100
Europe's Hot Growth 100
Info Tech 100
Emerging-market cellular players, wireless phone and gear makers, and Web giants are this year's stars
World's Most Innovative Companies
Nurturing, creative cultures allow these companies to wow customers with innovative products and services
More Special Reports
COVER STORY
Why You Should Worry About Big Oil Beyond the fat profits, the giants are surprisingly vulnerable worldwide. That's bad news for business -- and consumers
COVER IMAGE: Why You Should Worry About Big Oil
GRAPHIC: The New Nationalism
CHART: The Changing Game
CHART: Upward Slope
CHART: The Big Squeeze
Sakhalin Island: Journey To Extreme Oil
GRAPHIC: Sakhalin Island
ONLINE EXTRA: Slide Show: Shell's Uneasy Island Venture
You're Working For Chávez Now
CHART: The Chávez Chill
ONLINE EXTRA: BP Remains Confident Despite Big Changes
ONLINE EXTRA: Venezuela: Open for Business
Slide Show: Why the Oil Giants Look Weaker
EXECUTIVE LIFE
Upwardly Mobile The portable universe is expanding rapidly -- from tailor-made cell phones to the latest in digital video players. Here's a look at some bright new stars
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Papa Bear Changes His Tune
Giving Yuppies The Heave-Ho
The Guy Who Makes The Signs Knows
Attention-Getters
China, Courtside
The Feds Reel In A Great White
For Smart picks, Ask A Playmate
Soothing The Savage Driver
Cornstarch By Versace
READERS REPORT
Where The Innovation Is -- And Isn't
California's Chamber Of Commerce Begs To Differ
From A Loyalist, A Few Words For GOP Defectors
Immigration: Four Things The Home Countries Could Do
Auditors Are More Honest Than They Get Credit For
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
"Airbus May Hit An Air Pocket Over China" (Global Business, Apr. 24, 2006)
"Blue-Chip Blues" (Cover Story, Apr. 17, 2006)
VOICES OF INNOVATION
Why We ♥ Milton Glaser
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
An Itsy Bitsy Problem
MEDIA CENTRIC
Local TV's Clear Shot At The Net
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S: Why Profits Will Stay Pleasingly Plump
Housing: Renovations Could Get Hammered
THE BUSINESS WEEK
Immigrants On The March
Do Tell, Ben!
Thunder From Bolivia
KKR Opens the Gates
Aramark On The Block
A Message From Redmond
The Gasoline Price Circus
Options Angst
BlackBerry Back In Court
From Big Oil To Big Ag
Sic Transit
Lawsuit Of The Week
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Big Risk On Campus
Commentary: KKR: Barbarians At Your Gate
From One Male Bastion To The Other
When Gas Rises, Approval Tanks
Mickey D's McMakeover
ONLINE EXTRA: Slide Show: McDonald's Tricky Makeover
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
How The AMT Wallops Capital Gains
GLOBAL BUSINESS
China's Online Ad Boom
Voices From The Street
Hyundai: A Smoother Ride Minus The Big Wheel?
FINANCE
Mixed Signals From Microsoft
Drunk On Ethanol
LEGAL AFFAIRS
White Men Can't Help It
ENTERTAINMENT
Peacock Under Pressure
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Rebuilding Amgen's Bones
GOVERNMENT
Stealth Spending At The Pentagon
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Hauling In The Hollywood Hackers
MEDIA
The Boomlet In Baby News
THE CORPORATION
Ocean Spray's Creative Juices
PERSONAL FINANCE
Why The Housing Bubble Won't Burst
INSIDE WALL STREET
A Shine On Phelps Dodge
Will Praecis Announce A Lucrative Deal?
At Morton's, A Big Helping For The Money
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
Online Extra: Production Index Components
IDEAS -- BOOKS
Blood, Sweat, And Ratings
IDEAS -- FACE TIME WITH MARIA BARTIROMO
Straight Talk From The Fed
IDEAS -- THE WELCH WAY
How To Get Elected Boss
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