AT&T Outranks Telecom Rivals in Management Top 250
22 June 2018 - 1:22AM
Dow Jones News
AT&T Inc. ranked highest among the big U.S.
telecommunications companies in the Management Top 250 ranking,
lifted in large part by a strong showing on innovation. It was No.
35 overall on the list.
The company, which last week closed its $81 billion purchase of
Time Warner Inc., scored in the top 1% of all companies analyzed
for the ranking for innovation. It also was in the top 3% of
companies in financial strength, another ranking category, but it
was in the bottom 30% when it comes to customer satisfaction, a
third category.
Time Warner, a big media content producer, fell outside the top
250, at No. 283 among 693 U.S. and Canadian companies included in
the research that was conducted to develop the ranking.
The Management Top 250, first published in December, was
developed by the Drucker Institute to analyze and compare the
management performance of major U.S. companies. The overall ranking
is composed of five categories based on the ideals of the late
business guru Peter Drucker, who influenced generations of business
leaders with his writings, including a regular column in The Wall
Street Journal.
The innovation category is based on factors such as
research-and-development spending and statistics on patents, while
financial strength uses metrics such as earnings and return on
assets. Customer satisfaction tracks things like satisfaction with
products and services, customer loyalty and how well customer
expectations are met.
The other categories within the overall ranking are social
responsibility and employee engagement and development.
Verizon Communications Inc. was second among telecommunications
companies, ranked No. 48 overall. Among the three big telecom
companies in the Management Top 250, it scored highest on financial
strength. T-Mobile US Inc. was ranked No. 106 overall.
Sprint Corp., which has agreed to merge with T-Mobile, didn't
make the Management Top 250, coming in at No. 322 among all
companies studied by the Drucker Institute. Sprint was outscored by
its merger partner in every category except innovation.
See more analysis and the full list of the 2017 Management Top
250 at wsj.com/managementtop250. Plus, read about how technology,
financial and automotive companies rank. The full methodology is
available at on.wsj.com/top-250-methodology.
-- Dave Pettit ( @pettitd)
Write to Dave Pettit at dave.pettit@wsj.com
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