2010
Ranking companies’ worthiness
As part of our work on The Worthiness Era, we’re developing a quantitative “Worthiness Ranking” system which we expect to apply to every firm in the Fortune 100 (this will allow us to “name names” among our largest corporations, both positively and negatively).
In calculating this score, we’ll evaluate each company’s behavior in five different realms:
- Employer
- Customer focus
- Sustainability
- Absence of greed
- Contribution
Whenever possible, we’re planning to use publicly-available information as the source for each of the five indicators that combine to yield a company’s “Worthiness” score.
In future blog entries, we’ll explore some of the details of each of the five indicators. (In the meantime, let us know if it looks like we’ve missed any major categories.)
Tagged contribution, customer focus, greed, ranking companies, sustainability, worthiness, worthy employer
Stacey WagnerFebruary 24, 2010 at 1:26 pm
The issue of a company’s worthiness is an interesting concept. Having just come from a hearing on Capitol Hill on the Reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act, I wonder if a company’s participation in collaborating with workforce development stakeholders (such as WIBs, community colleges, CBOs, and the like) to help develop talent pipelines from outside the university system might qualify as “worthy”.
Laurie BassiMarch 3, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Stacey’s comment (2/24/2010) points to one specific behavior that we would definitely consider to be a worthy one–finding win-win ways to help education and employ people who are often passed over, but can be great contributors if given a chance.
GrantApril 2, 2010 at 12:31 pm
This is interesting, as it offers a new dimension on companies in a more transparent era. I would be interested in seeing more correlations with each of these metrics and stock performance. I’m sure that some of the time series work you may be doing. Nice work.