Пет Гелсінгер, колишній генеральний директор Intel. Фото: Стів Маркус/Reuters
The Drucker Institute and The Wall Street Journal have published their annual ranking of the 250 best-managed US companies — and, surprisingly, Intel made the list despite currently going through what might be the biggest crisis in its history.
Last week, after losing over 50% of its value in 2024, Intel fired CEO Pat Gelsinger — making the ranking’s release just days later feel almost too ironic.
This year, Apple topped the Drucker Institute’s ranking of the 250 best-managed companies in the US, followed by Nvidia, with Microsoft, which had been in the top spot for four years, moving to third place. Intel landed in fourth, Alphabet in eighth, and Adobe in ninth. The rest of the top ten were non-tech companies, including Mastercard, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and tobacco giant Philip Morris International.
The ranking, developed by the Drucker Institute and The Wall Street Journal, evaluates companies across five key areas: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility, and financial strength.
Apple’s innovation score of 99.9 points, driven by the 2024 launch of the iPhone 16 with Apple Intelligence AI, secured its first-place finish in the rankings — even though its new features were rolled out quite gradually, as seen with the upcoming release of iOS 18.1. However, Apple scored the lowest in the Drucker ranking for employee engagement and development.
As expected, Nvidia led in financial assessment, becoming the world’s most valuable company by market cap in 2024 — surpassing $3.5 trillion at its peak in November.
Source: Business Insider