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The biggest, the most profitable, the fastest growing, the best of the best -- whether you're seeking a new job or an entirely new career, our "list of lists" of leading companies could prove invaluable in your search.

Unless otherwise stated, lists are U.S. specific.

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  General (non-industry specific)
  High Tech (Internet, IT, computers, etc.)

Page 2
  Diversity (minority- and women-oriented lists of companies)
  Professional Services (law, accounting, management consulting, etc.)
 Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations
  Banking, Finance & Insurance
  Retail
  Real Estate
  Construction & Engineering
  Miscellaneous       

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  U.S. - Regional (state-by-state listings)

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  Canada
  Overseas

General

•  Hoover's Online: The Hoover's 500 (2000?)
America's largest enterprises.

•  Fortune 500 (2001)
America's largest companies.

•  Forbes 500s Annual Directory (2001)
America's largest corporations. (Free registration may be required.)

•  The Financial Times: The FT 500 (2001)
The world's largest companies.

•  Forbes: Platinum 400 (2001)
Best-performing big companies.

•  Forbes: The Top 500 Private Companies (2000)

•  Forbes: The 300 Best Small Companies (2000)
The world's top small companies. (Free registration may be required.)

•  Fortune: Global 500 (2001)
World's largest corporations.

•  Forbes: The International 800 (2000)
World's largest companies.

•  BusinessWeek: The Global 1000 (2001)
World's most valuable companies.

•  Deloitte Touche: The 200 Fastest-Growing Companies in the World (1999)

•  Fortune: America's Fastest-Growing Companies (2001)

•  Individual Investor: America's Fastest Growing Companies (2000)

•  Inc. 500 (2000)
Another list of America's fastest-growing companies.

•  Forbes: The 200 Best Small Companies in America (2000)

•  Wired: The Wired Index (2000)
Forty companies driving the new economy.

•  Entrepreneur and Dun & Bradstreet: Hot 100 (2001)
Fastest-growing entrepreneurial businesses.

•  CIO: The CIO 100 (2000)
Masters of the customer connection: Companies that do customer relationship management right.

•  BusinessWeek: Hot Growth Companies (2001)
One hundred fastest-growing small companies.

•  Fortune: Cool Companies 2001
25 of the coolest U.S. and global startups.

•  BusinessWeek: BW 50 (2001)
The S&P 500's best-performing companies.

•  Fortune: America's Most Admired Companies (2001)

•  Harris Interactive: RQ Gold (2000)
The 45 most reputable companies in America. See this related article for more details.

•  Mother Jones: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2000
Companies that exploited and abused labor, the environment, the poor, the elderly, and anything else which threatened the bottom line.

•  Business Ethics: 100 Best Corporate Citizens (2001)
Companies that do the best job of serving stockholders, employees, customers, and community.

•  Fortune: 100 Best Companies to Work For (2001)
Annual list of employers that know how to treat workers right.

•  Mother Jones: 20 Better Places to Work (1997)
Companies with the best track records in charitable giving, fair labor practices, progressive benefits, sound environmental practices and satisfied employees. Older list but still mostly accurate.

•  Hoover's Online: Hoover's Top Employers (1999)
Find the top employers in 14 major cities in the U.S.

•  IndustryWeek: 100 Best-Managed Companies (2000)
World's best-run manufacturing companies.

•  The IndustryWeek 1000 (2001)
World's largest manufacturing companies.

•  IndustryWeek: America's Best Plants (2000)

•  Financial Times: World's Most Respected Companies (2000)
Fifty of the most highly regarded companies in the world.

•  IndustryWeek: Growing Companies 25 (2000)
Although these 25 manufacturers make diverse products, they have one common denominator -- dynamic executives who are deeply committed to manufacturing quality products, intelligent marketing methods, exceptional customer service, and employee empowerment.

•  Fortune Small Business: FSB 100 (2001)
America's fastest-growing small public companies.

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High Tech

•  Business Week: The Info Tech 100 (2001)
World's best-performing IT companies. Expanded list includes 200 companies.

•  Forbes: Best of the Web (2000)
Two hundred of the most promising B2Bs in each of 25 different industries.

•  VerticalZOOM: 100 Best B2B Internet Suppliers (2000)
Global e-commerce suppliers that deliver value and performance.

•  InfoWorld E-Business 100: 90 Sites to Watch (2000)
Innovative e-businesses. 

•  SiliconValley.com: Hot Companies 2001 (2000)
Up-and-coming dot-coms in 12 different sectors.

•  Smart Business: Smart Business 50 (2000)
U.S. companies born before the Web that have done the best job of using it.

•  Interactive Week: The Fast 50 (2000)
The New Economy's fastest-growing companies.

•  Interactive Week: The Interactive 500 (2000)
Companies ranked by the amount of revenue they generate from Web operations.

•  Deloitte & Touche: Technology Fast 500 (2000)
Fastest-growing technology companies.

•  Upside Today: Hot 100 Private Companies (2001)
Upside's choices for the hottest private high-tech companies.

•  Upside Today: E-Biz 250 (2000)
Best-positioned companies in five key e-business sectors.

•  InformationWeek: E-Business 100 (1999)
The nation's most innovative practitioners of electronic business applications and solutions.

•  eWeek: FastTrack 100 (2000)
Industry leaders in e-business networking.

•  Red Herring: Herring 100 (2001)
Top companies of the electronic economy.

•  The Industry Standard: Standard 100 (2000)
Most important companies in the Internet economy.

•  The Industry Standard: Top I-Builders (1999)
Leading builders of Web sites and Web businesses.

•  Internet Job Source: The Internet's Largest Employers (2000)
Find out which companies are the 60 largest Internet employers in America.

•  InternetWorld: IW50 (2000)
Fifty biggest pure-play Internet companies, ranked by revenue. 1998 list is much more detailed.

•  Fortune: e-50 (2000)
Index of e-stocks. Each of these companies is, or has the potential to be, a major player in the Internet economy.

•  eCompany: eCompany 40 (2001)
A handful of Internet stocks will rise from the ashes; likely leaders will be this hardy band of companies that build the basic tools corporate America needs to conduct e-business.

•  Content Magazine: content500 Plus
A guide to the top companies in the emerging digital content marketplace.

•  Harte-Hanks: Market Focus: ASP (2001)
The top 100 application service providers in the marketplace today.

•  Business 2.0: B2 Top 100 (1999)
Hottest companies on the Net.

•  NewMedia: NewMedia 500 (1999?)
The technology, media, and infrastructure companies that play the most influential roles in digital-interactive media. (NOTE: The exact page cannot be bookmarked. Enter the site and click on the "NewMedia 500" link on the left side of the page. Free registration required.)

•  Forbes ASAP: Ramp Champs (2001)
The 20 best-managed, fastest-growing tech companies in the world.

•  Worth Magazine: The Net's 50 Fastest-Growing Companies (1999)

•  The PC Magazine 100 (1999)
The world's most influential high-tech companies.

•  Intelligent Enterprise: The 12 Most Influential Companies in IT (2000)

•  InformationWeek 500 (2000)
Most innovative corporate users of IT.

•  Information Week: Innovation 100: The Customer (2000)
The most innovative companies in building profitable and successful customer relationships.

•  Computerworld: Emerging Companies 2001 (2000)
One hundred start-ups to watch in 2001.

•  Computerworld: Emerging Companies (2000)
Weekly profiles of hot new companies with products or services that will have a big impact on how our Computerworld's readers do their jobs.

•  Computer Reseller News: E-Stars (2000)
CRN lists its choices for the top Web integrators, application service providers, hosting service providers and e-tailers.

•  eWeek: Fast-Track 500 (1999)
Top corporate IT innovators.

•  eWeek: Fast-Track 100 Internet Technology Innovators (1999)
Companies that are most aggressively using Web-based technologies to restructure themselves and their industries.

•  eWeek: Fast-Track 100 Manufacturing Innovators (1999)
These manufacturers are the leaders in deploying leading-edge technologies.

•  eWeek: FastTrack 100 (2000)
Innovators in e-business networking.

•  eWeek: Fast-Track 100 Enterprise Networking Innovators (1999)

•  eWeek: Fast-Track 100 List of Networking Innovators (1999)

•  eWeek: e-CRM FastTrack 100 (2000)
Innovators in e-biz customer relationship management.

•  eWeek: Fast-Track 100 Desktop & Mobile Technology Innovators (1999)

•  eWeek: 15 Companies to Watch (1999)
Some of the year's most promising high-tech companies.

•  Healthcare Informatics: Top 100 (2000)
Top IT companies serving the healthcare industry.

•  ChannelSeven.com: Web Development 2000 Winners (2000)
Throughout the year, ChannelSeven.com identifies outstanding Web design and
development companies from among thousands around the U.S. with weekly
additions to the Top 100 U.S. Web Dev list.

•  Computerworld: 100 Best Places to Work in IT (2001)

•  Inter@ctive Week: Top 10 Companies To Work For (2000)

•  The Conduit: 20 African-American Technology Companies to Watch
   in 2000 (2000) - Up-and-coming black-owned tech companies.

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•  TRI: 200 RED HOT Communications Start-ups (1999)
Detailed report is $495, but the full list is available for free; includes useful search page.

•  start magazine: The Hottest Companies of 2000 (2000)
Sixty-two of the most promising computer software companies around.

•  digitalsouth.com: 50 Companies to Watch in 2001 (2001)
The South's top pre-IPO tech shops.

•  Network World 200 (2000)
Biggest U.S.-based public network companies.

•  VARBusiness 500 (2000)
The largest solution providers -- value-added resellers, integrators and consultants -- in North America.

•  Sm@rt Partners: Smart 100 Companies (2001)
The world's most successful and dynamic VARs, ASPs, total solutions providers, e-business consultants and e-business engineers.

•  VARBusiness: The Distribution 25 (2000)
Largest computer distributors.

•  VARBusiness: The E100+25 (2000)
The top 100 e-business professional services companies, plus 25 to watch.

•  VARBusiness: The Fast 50 (2000)
Fastest-growing solution providers.

•  Knowledge Management World: 100 Companies that Matter in
   Knowledge Management (2000)
The companies that best exhibit the qualities that KM World consider to be important -- market makers, solutions technology makers, solutions service makers and infrastructure technology makers.

•  Oracle: Top 50 E-business Solution Providers on Oracle (1999)
List of solution providers who use Oracle's Internet computing program; ranked based upon innovation and revenue growth.

•  The Internet Analyst: The TIA Net Index 150 (2000)
The largest Internet-related companies, by market capitalization. (Companies in Index must have Internet as their core business, or have major departments
devoted to Internet. Index is updated biweekly.)

•  Harris Interactive: RQ Digital (2000)
America's 40 leading tech companies ranked by reputation.

•  Software Magazine: Software 500 (2000)
Top players in software and software-related services.

•  Managing Automation: 25 Emerging Software Companies to Watch (2000)

•  DM Review: The Data Warehouse 100 (2000)
Leading vendors of business intelligence and data warehousing products.

•  Electronic Business: Top 20 Global Semiconductor Companies (1999)

•  Electronic Buyers' News: Top Semiconductor Suppliers (2001)
World's leading semiconductor suppliers.

•  Electronic Business: Top 250 Electronics Companies (1999)
World's largest electronics companies.

•  Electronic Business: EB300 (2000)
Movers and shakers in the electronics industry.

•  Electronic Business: 30 Best Small Electronics Companies (2001)
Ranked by 3-year annual sales growth.

•  Electronic Business: Top 100 Contract Manufacturers (1999)

•  Electronic Buyers' News: Top Component Suppliers (1999)

•  Electronic Business: Top 25 American Electronic Component
   Distributors (2001)

•  Electronic Buyers' News: Top 50 Distributors (2000)
North America's top franchised distributors of electronic equipment.

•  Electronic Business News: The 2001 Top 50 Distributors
Largest electronics distributors.

•  The ASPnews Top 20 (2001)
On the first Tuesday of each month, ASPnews unveils its updated list of the Top 20 ASPs and infrastructure providers -- which represents the bellwethers of the
evolving service provider industry.

•  Washington Technology: Top 100 Federal Prime Contractors in IT (2000) - Largest providers of information technology to the federal government.

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