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February 20, 2012
A Higher Calling

Verizon rang in the New Year with a new number: The telecom company earned the No. 1 spot on the 2012 Training Top 125. Farmers Insurance claimed the No. 2 spot, while Top 5 newcomers Miami Children’s Hospital, Mohawk Industries, and McDonald’s nabbed Nos. 3, 4, and 5, respectively.

Verizon rang in the New Year with a new number: The telecom company earned the No. 1 spot on the 2012 Training Top 125. Farmers Insurance claimed the No. 2 spot, while Top 5 newcomers Miami Children’s Hospital, Mohawk Industries, and McDonald’s nabbed Nos. 3, 4, and 5, respectively.

Some 24 new companies broke into the Top 125 this year, with Capital One and Sprint Nextel Corp. debuting in the Top 50. The majority of the companies are in the health/medical services, real estate/insurance, business services, and finance/banking industries.

August 26, 2011
As Interest Rates Fall, Civilizations Rise

When interest rates are low, it tells us that we should invest today because any return will be prized more in the future, believes Todd G. Bucholz, author of “Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race.” Societies that make tomorrow more appealing show more progress. And not just material, GDP-measured progress. They also show less bloodshed and longer lives. Time is of the essence of human progress. Either we imagine progress and move forward, or we sink into entropy.

By Todd G. Buchholz

October 1, 2010
Training Today: PwC Opens Its University Doors

PricewaterhouseCoopers is offering much of its training material in a convenient online format at PwC Open University. This corporate resource provides business executives, faculty, students, and regulators around the world with access to an expansive and growing library of award-winning training courseware developed by the firm, which ranked No. 1 on Training magazine’s Training Top 125 for the last three years.

Looking for some top-rated training material? Training Top 125 three-peater PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) clearly has the right stuff, and now it’s available to you—for free.