February 3, 1997
To: CLS Associates
From: Nicholas Johnson
Re: Companies List
Note: "You will be known by the companies you keep." What follows is an alphabetical list of your nominations (January 22) for the largest global corporations in the businesses of telecommunications, mass media, computers and other electronics. For the most part, every company you nominated is listed here. (A couple of you listed companies in the form of illustrations of lines of business, rather than as the world's largest, and so those were not used.) The number of lines (the letter "l") following the company name is the number of nominations. I have marked (with a "*") those that I would put on a short list -- just FYI and off the top of my head without research; there is no reason for you to be influenced by that.
Advance Publications, Inc. (Newhouse) l
Alltel l
*America OnLine l
Ameritech l
Apple ll
*AT&T lllll ll
Autodesk l
Barclays l
Bell Atlantic l
BellSouth l
Bertelsmann AG l
*British Telecom ll
Comcast l
CompuServe l
*Deutsche Telekom l
Digital Equipment Co. ll
Disney (See Walt Disney)
Eastman Kodak Co. ll
EMI-UK l
Fox l
France Telecom l
Fujitsu l
General Electric llll
GTE l
*Hewlett Packard lll
*IBM lllll ll
*Intel lllll
Invesco l
ITT ll
Loral Space & Communications l
Lotus Development Corp. l
Lucent/Celcom l
Matsushita lll
MCI Communications llll
*Microsoft lllll ll
*Motorola lllll l
NCR lNEC l
*News Corporation Ltd. ll
Novell l
NTT l
NYNEX ll
Olivetti l
Pacific Telesis Group l
Pathe-French l
Philip Morris l
Phillips Electronics l
RCA l
Samsung l
SBC Communications l
Sharp l
Siemens ll
*Sony lllll l
Sprint lll
Sun Microsystems ll
Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) l
*Time-Warner Inc. llll
Tokyo Electric l
Toshiba lUnited Technologies l
*USWEST l
*Viacom Inc. l
*Walt Disney Co. lll
Westinghouse l
WorldCom l