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Harris, a market-research firm, polled about 9,000 Americans online at the beginning of the year in order to generate a list of the 60 "most visible" companies, and also asked some 30,000 people broader questions about corporate America's reputation. Each company was then evaluated in areas such as social responsibility, leadership, financial performance, product quality and workplace environment by about 600 people. The top 10 highest-rated companies: Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson & Johnson, Google, 3M, SC Johnson, Intel, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Amazon and General Mills...
...roots. His parents, Soviet Jews, emigrated from Moscow to the U.S. at the Cold War's height, and Brin has a keen awareness of anything that smacks of political censorship. Google, of course, knew about the compromises one must make to do business in China when it entered the market in 2006. But it seems that Brin decided this year that the company could no longer abide the level of censorship, and hacking, and e-mail pilfering that takes place behind Beijing's Great Firewall. The showdown comes at a time when the most important economic relationship on the planet...
...Obviously, March was a very good month," says a beaming Don Esmond, Toyota Motor Sales senior vice president, noting that the Japanese automaker, which has been hurt by controversy and car recalls owing to unintended acceleration, increased sales 41% in March. Toyota also gained market share through what Edmunds.com described as "record incentives." (See the most exciting cars...
...Commencement, the Class of 2010 will finally be setting off on their own, but exactly where they are going is another story. Lured to far-off lands, some seniors are going beyond American shores—from Hong Kong to Paris—to seize what the international job market has to offer...
...with the Chinese Student Association and other cultural organizations. When it came time to look for a job, being able to work in China was a major plus for her. “I’m taking Chinese, I have family in China, and China’s market is growing at a very fast rate,” she says. “I would like to be a part...