Red Herring picks its 100 favorite public and private companies.
6/10/2002
With its annual Top 100 list, Red Herring editors pick the fifty public and fifty private enterprises they deem the nation's best technology companies in sectors including semiconductors, software, nanotechnology, media, energy, consumer electronics and data storage. Judging criteria included a firm's ability to disrupt a market or create a new one, strategy execution, and quality of management. The editors say this year's picks reflect three trends: globalization (more than twenty non-U.S. firms are listed), a return to business basics (software companies are prominent), and the recovering economy (20 percent of the public companies reported a negative three-year earnings growth).