Apple among world's most respected companies
updated 09:20 am EST, Mon November 21, 2005
Apple enters Top 10 list
Apple's iPod, iTunes and other successes may be helping it achieve respect from the worldwide community. Apple jumped from No. 42 to No. 9 on this year's from Price Waterhouse Cooper. Apple is among the four IT vendors on the list, which is lead by Microsoft and also incluides IBM (No. 5), Google (No. 39th) and HP (No. 46), which suffered the greatest drop from the No. 10 last year. Microsoft's Bill Gates "remains the number one most respected business leader and in a new listing of 'most influential business writer or management guru' comes in at second just behind management guru Peter Drucker. Microsoft is also rated top in the 'best for shareholder value' category and perhaps controversially in the 'best for innovation' category. IBM and Apple were also placed in the 'best turnaround' category." The eight year-old survey is based on 1,000 chief executive interviews. Results are weighted according to the GDP in each country, according to Vnunet.com.
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