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Apple – the biggest company ever?
Almost exactly a year ago we were asking if Apple was the world’s biggest company and 12 months later, perhaps it’s the biggest of all time.
If you follow the link to the previous blog, you can see that this is a question that deserves a considered response. It mainly hangs of your definition of ‘big’. For instance, the number of employees in a firm is often used to measure size. The table below shows some business organisations that make Apple seem ‘big’, rather than enormous!
The latest headlines have been prompted by the news that the market value of Apple’s shares have just hit approximately $623bn, beating Microsoft’s record of $621bn set in 1999.
You can still argue with the figures however - £620 billion was worth more in 1999 than 2012, as inflation has reduced that value of $1, so Apple perhaps have a good way to go before becoming the biggest ever business…
The ‘Biggest’ Firm - is it also the best? [23 May 2013]
Leadership & Culture: The Depends On Factors that will Determine Apple’s Future? [14 May 2013]
What does Apple plan to spend $100bn on? [24 Apr 2013]
Design Becomes Part of the Culture at Google [13 Feb 2013]
Blackberry’s Last Hope - What it costs to make the Z10 [12 Feb 2013]
I Love this Company! The Perfect Introduction to Corporate Culture [7 Feb 2013]
Is “Apple’s Culture of Secrecy” A Competitive Advantage? [1 Feb 2013]
Sony’s New Super Smartphone - A Premium Product, But Can It Compete with Apple & Samsung? [10 Jan 2013]
Innovation: Big Spending on R&D Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Strong Innovation [11 Nov 2012]
Ansoff is everywhere [11 Oct 2012]
Will Apple really make £426 profit on each iPhone5? [18 Sep 2012]
Customer reactions to the new iPhone 5 - did anything change? [14 Sep 2012]
Apple’s Product Portfolio - the iPhone is now as big as Microsoft! [10 Sep 2012]
Tablet Wars - Kindle v IPad - Amazon v Apple [9 Sep 2012]
Technological Change: A Crucial Period in the Smartphone Market [2 Sep 2012]
Revision Quiz - Business Growth [27 Aug 2012]
Leadership at Apple - Tim Cook’s First Year [27 Aug 2012]
Technology, Culture & Innovation: What’s Gone Wrong with Microsoft? [19 Aug 2012]
Product placement: Sony blocks out Apple via Spiderman [14 Jul 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - How to Destroy 99% of a Takeover’s Value [3 Jul 2012]
Adding Value - How Much Profit is Made by the iPhone? [16 Jun 2012]
More Retrenchment at Nokia (June 2012) [14 Jun 2012]
Nokia and Strategic Change - the Essential A2 Business Case [14 Jun 2012]
A detailed look inside Apple’s Foxconn factory [24 Apr 2012]
Strategy - How Nokia was overtaken by Apple and Samsung [17 Apr 2012]
Apple under fire for e-book deals [17 Apr 2012]
Strategy & Technological Change - Whatever Happened to BlackBerry? [14 Apr 2012]
Sony - Hirai’s Turnaround Strategy - in Video Clips [13 Apr 2012]
Organisational culture, strategy and performance in fewer than 1000 words [9 Apr 2012]
Move over Apple, Samsung, Sony & Nokia. Here Comes China’s Huawei [7 Apr 2012]
Do Apple Customers Turn a Blind-eye to CSR in their Pursuit of Innovation? [18 Mar 2012]
Two Lesson Videos on Nokia - Will their Strategy Work? [13 Mar 2012]
Apple’s new CEO and a new iPad - A Change in Leadership [9 Mar 2012]
Video starter - Inside the iPad factory [21 Feb 2012]
Ideas not Hierarchy Makes a Business - Steve Jobs on Teamwork & Culture [13 Feb 2012]
The history of Apple’s product innovation - in 30 seconds [10 Feb 2012]
Leadership and strategy: what decisions does the boss of Microsoft make? [29 Jan 2012]
Strategic choice: What should Apple do for its investors? [29 Jan 2012]
The tablet takeover? [23 Jan 2012]
In Business - technology developments in 2012 [3 Jan 2012]
Technology and Business - Microsoft’s vision of the mobile future is astounding (video) [28 Oct 2011]
Strategy case study - does Microsoft have a long-term strategy? [21 Oct 2011]
Meet the CEO of Dropbox - the man who said no to Steve Jobs! [20 Oct 2011]
Leadership video - A heartfelt apology from the boss [15 Oct 2011]
Can investment in R&D provide a competitive advantage? [31 Aug 2011]
Apple and Innovation - Iconic Product Launches by Steve Jobs [25 Aug 2011]
Leadership - Farewell to Steve Jobs [25 Aug 2011]
Smartphone market shares spell trouble for Nokia [17 Aug 2011]
Samsung seeks a ban on Apple products [1 Jul 2011]
CSR - Should Apple Pay More for its Geniuses? [14 Jun 2011]
Corporate longevity: the lessons from IBM’s 100th birthday [14 Jun 2011]
An unusual new entry in an organisational structure [23 May 2011]
CSR - Apple: Big Profits but Dirty Data? [21 Apr 2011]
CSR - Apple audits the supply chain [15 Feb 2011]
CSR - Avoiding the child labour hotspots [15 Feb 2011]
Leadership - can Apple really be a one-man band? [19 Jan 2011]
Wipeout for the Whiteboard Maker [3 Dec 2010]
Microsoft - Competitive Strategy in the Post-PC world [30 Oct 2010]
Culture & Change - The Challenge Facing Nokia [27 Sep 2010]
Leadership & Strategy - “Welcome to Nokia” [20 Sep 2010]
Can new leadership revive Nokia’s fortunes [12 Sep 2010]
Fighting for a share of the fast-growth tablet market [11 Sep 2010]
When is a Ping not a Ping? When its an Apple [1 Sep 2010]
Does Nokia’s Strategy Need An Upgraded CEO? [30 Jul 2010]
The Dark Side of the iPad and iPhone? [26 May 2010]
Some facinating data on research & development data at Apple, Google & Microsoft [25 May 2010]
Global technology giants are hoarding their cash [26 Mar 2010]
Financial Ratio Practice Resource - Apple Inc [27 Feb 2010]
Competitive marketing - taking on Microsoft [20 Feb 2010]
Advertising Coming To A Windows 7 Desktop Near You [18 Nov 2009]
Advertising spend for four global brands [29 Oct 2009]
Are Cool Brands Really Cool? [29 Sep 2009]
A Microsoft Marketing Mishap [20 Sep 2009]
Microsoft and Google compete head-to-head [9 Jul 2009]
Bing - the battle for search engine market share is on [28 May 2009]
Is this a sensible strategic decision by Microsoft? [15 Feb 2009]
Apple overtakes Google as the new King of Silicon Valley [22 Aug 2008]
Now thats what i call a takeover [1 Feb 2008]
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