g-f(2)67 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE: WSJ, The technology giants lead the pack of the country’s best-run companies

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• In a year when the coronavirus pandemic has devastated large swaths of the U.S. economy and reconfigured the ways millions of Americans shop, work, communicate and learn, tech stalwarts have remained in the uppermost echelon of the Management Top 250, an annual ranking based on the principles of the late management guru Peter Drucker.
• In the 2020 lineup, Microsoft Corp. unseated Amazon.com as No. 1 by performing consistently well across each of the five main components of the overall ranking compiled by researchers at Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker Institute: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility and financial strength.

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Category 2: The Big Picture of the Digital Age

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Fernando Machuca

References

The Best-Managed Companies of 2020—and How They Got That Way, Patrick Thomas, Dec. 12, 2020, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ. 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Patrick Thomas is a reporter covering business education for The Wall Street Journal's management bureau. He is a graduate of Marquette University.