BusinessWeek Fast Track: The Best Places to Launch a Career

by Gerdes, Lindsey

• ISBN13: 9780071496551
• ISBN10: 0071496556
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-17
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Insight that puts business students ahead of the pack-from the world's number-one business magazine Authoritative, portable, and with online links, these pocket-sized reference books fromBusinessWeekare packed with need-to-know information on the top schools, employers, and business programs. Drawn fromBusinessWeekmagazine's definitive ratings and reviews and BusinessWeek.com's data, they deliver the most up-to-date information on the best graduate and undergraduate business programs and the best employers. Packed with profiles of 95 of the best employers, this book gives you a fact-filled snapshot of the company you will be interviewing with, including its average starting salary, financials, leadership, recent developments, and quotes from young employees.

Author Biography

Lindsey Gerdes, a Staff Editor at BusinessWeek, launched the magazine's inaugural rankings package of the Best Places to Launch a Career.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Business Week Top Employers	p. xi
Accounting
Deloitte LLP	p. 1
Ernst & Young LLP	p. 5
Grant Thornton LLP	p. 9
KPMG LLP	p. 13
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP	p. 17
Consulting
Accenture	p. 21
BearingPoint	p. 25
Booz Allen Hamilton	p. 29
Navigant Consulting	p. 33
Protiviti	p. 37
Consumer Goods
General Mills	p. 41
Kraft Foods	p. 45
L'Oreal USA	p. 49
Nestle USA	p. 53
Nike Inc.	p. 57
Philip Morris USA	p. 61
Procter & Gamble	p. 65
Sherwin-Williams Co.	p. 69
Unilever	p. 73
Energy
British Petroleum America	p. 77
Constellation Energy	p. 81
Duke Energy	p. 85
Exelon	p. 89
Shell Oil Company	p. 93
Financial Services
Ameriprise Financial	p. 97
Capital One Financial	p. 101
Sun Trust	p. 105
Vanguard	p. 109
Wachovia	p. 113
Wells Fargo	p. 117
Hospitality
ARAMARK	p. 121
Harrah's Entertainment	p. 125
Hyatt Hotels and Resorts	p. 129
Marriott International	p. 133
The Walt Disney Company	p. 137
Insurance
Aetna	p. 141
American International Group	p. 145
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association	p. 149
Chubb	p. 153
Liberty Mutual	p. 157
MetLife	p. 161
Nationwide	p. 165
New York Life Insurance	p. 169
Northwestern Mutual	p. 173
Progressive	p. 177
Prudential Financial	p. 181
The Travelers Companies	p. 185
Internet
Career Builder.com	p. 189
Google Inc.	p. 193
Investment Banking
Deutsche Bank	p. 197
Goldman Sachs	p. 201
JPMorgan Investment Bank	p. 205
Lehman Brothers	p. 209
Merrill Lynch & Co.	p. 213
UBS AG	p. 217
Manufacturing
Boeing	p. 221
General Electric	p. 225
Ingersoll Rand	p. 229
Lockheed Martin	p. 233
Northrop Grumman	p. 237
Raytheon	p. 241
Wolseley North American Division	p. 245
Nonprofit/Goverment
California State Auditor	p. 249
Central Intelligence Agency	p. 253
Peace Corps	p. 257
Teach for America	p. 261
U.S. Department of State	p. 265
U.S. Internal Revenue Service	p. 269
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office	p. 273
Pharma/Health
Abbott Laboratories	p. 277
Eli Lilly	p. 281
Johnson & Johnson	p. 285
Merck	p. 289
St. Jude Medical	p. 293
Retail
Kohl's	p. 297
Macy's, Inc.	p. 301
Walgreen Co.	p. 305
Technology
Cisco Systems	p. 309
Dell	p. 313
Hewlett-Packard	p. 317
Intel	p. 321
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)	p. 325
Microsoft	p. 329
Motorola	p. 333
Telecommunications
AT&T	p. 337
Sprint Nextel	p. 341
Verizon	p. 345
Transportation
C.H. Robinson Worldwide	p. 349
DHL	p. 353
Enterprise Rent-A-Car	p. 357
Norfolk Southern Company	p. 361
Southwest Airlines	p. 365
Union Pacific	p. 369
UPS	p. 373
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