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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
Fear Of Firing How the threat of litigation is making companies skittish about axing problem workers
COVER IMAGE: "You're Fired!"...Not So Fast
CHART: Untouchable Nation
GRAPHIC: For Every 10,000 Lawsuits, Few Losses, But High Costs
ONLINE EXTRA: Playbook: Pink-Slip Protocol
SMALLBIZ -- APRIL/MAY 2007
BusinessWeek SmallBiz In this issue: Five HR mistakes you can't afford to make; easy ways to raise startup cash; secrets of viral marketing; slash your fuel bill, and more
UP FRONT
Talk Show
A Natural Gas OPEC? Not Likely
Dollar-A-Year (Or Less) Men
Now, The Warm And Fuzzy MRI
Ink Jets That Go Lickety-Split
Once And Future Spamalot
Where The Hamburger Joint Is A Way Of Life
Now, That's Really A Turf War
Sharp Ears
Question Of The Week
UP FRONT -- ANALYZE THIS
Me, Me, Me, Me, Me
READERS REPORT
More Miracles Of Motion Capture
Raspberries For Microsoft Search
Union Organizing Via Card Check Is Nothing New
Undergrad B-Schools: What The Rankings Miss
Plenty Of Businessmen, But Only One Thomas Edison
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
"Hot Properties, Half A World Away" (Personal Finance, Apr. 16, 2007)
"Groundbreakers From Two Originals" (Executive Life, Apr. 16, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Harnessing Social Networks
MEDIA CENTRIC
These Are Troubled Times
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: The Job Markets Face A Stress Test
Strong Tax Revenues Slow The Red Ink
THE BUSINESS WEEK
A Trade Spat Heats Up
Buffett Hops A Train
Economic Anxiety
Citi Wields The Ax
NASDAQ's New Flame
Biotech Brouhaha
Kerkorian Non Grata
Biggest Buyout Ever?
College Loan Scandal
Pouncing On Puma
Baby Food Behemoth
Costly Comment Of The Week
NEWS & INSIGHTS
What Spending Slowdown?
As Power Shifts, So Do The Dollars
Buyer Beware At Chrysler
Free Information, Please
The Growing Revolt Against The SEC
The Battle Of Britain
Business In Russia Just Got Riskier
GLOBAL BUSINESS
The Race To Build Really Cheap Cars
ONLINE EXTRA: Slide Show: The World's Cheapest Cars
The Great Indian Beer Rush
THE CORPORATION
The Accidental CEO (Not Really)
Playbook: How To Grow A CEO
ONLINE EXTRA: Slide Show: Insider vs. Outsider in the Corner Office
FINANCE
PNC May Have A Hedge Fund On Its Tail
Can Wachovia Rewrite The Rules Of Debt?
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Under The Weather At J&J
Vioxx Casts A Long, Long Shadow
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
A Test For Metastatic Cancer
Boeing Adds Some Green To The Wild Blue Yonder
Virtual Help For Real Pain
Of Bipolar Brains, Health-Care Bucks, And Bioplastics
MEDIA
The Marshal Of MySpace
WORKING LIFE
Go-Go-Going To Pieces In China
ENVIRONMENT
Climate Wars: Episode Two
MARKETING
The Sell-Phone Revolution
INFO TECH
How Accenture One-Upped Bangalore
ONLINE EXTRA: India Takes Tech to a Higher Level
EXECUTIVE LIFE
Steak Chic
Wagyu, The Foie Gras Of Steaks
Bummed Out In Baggage Claim
EXECUTIVE LIFE -- PARKER ON WINE
Napa Wine, Bordeaux Character
PERSONAL FINANCE
The High Price Of Free Insurance
Meet The Parents-Backed Mortgage
INSIDE WALL STREET
SunPower Shines Bright
Avalon's New Lab Partner: Merck
Tougher Pollution Rules Are Buoying ADA-ES
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
Online Extra: Production Index Components
IDEAS -- BOOKS
A Blast From Iacocca
IDEAS -- FACE TIME WITH MARIA BARTIROMO
Sam Zell, Media Mogul
IDEAS -- THE WELCH WAY
The New Brain Drain
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